I'm shy - why do people dislike me and why would someone with 700 Facebook friends UNfriend me?

[OzNana]

Face book is not real. These are not real friends. At best they are acquaintances. As your other respondent said, maybe they just didn't recognise your name. You should not take any notice of this and stop hanging out on facebook.

Try to concentrate on having real friends. Having hundreds of people as facebook friends is not the same as having real friends. Most people in real life would have no more than 5-10 real friends, and an awful lot of people manage perfectly well with only 2-3 real friends.

Facebook is an artificially generated popularity contest. There are many drawbacks to being on face book. For example, you can never really erase or remove your information from there. There was recently a computer virus that allowed hackers to access your home computer and access banking and credit card details, it was also spread through facebook. People have had stalkers and all sorts of problems. Someone had their identity stolen, a false face book page was made without this young man's knowledge, that spoke about wanting to rape and commit crimes. A young man's life has been seriously damaged by this. Prospective employers and colleges check out to see if people have facebook pages to tell them if that is the sort of person they really want working for them. Understand that things like facebook can be bad as well as good. Look at you. You have been upset by something as silly as this.