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

[Ellie]

Story of my life.
I have the same problem. I grew up a shy and quiet child and never really had that many good friends. I'm 23 now and still don't. People treat me differently. Sometimes they misjudge me as soon as they meet me (people are always so quick to judge based on appearance and first impressions, which we all know aren't always the best).
I try to get along and be friendly with everyone, but I still encounter people, mostly other women, who immediately start behaving catty and bi*chy toward me for absolutely no reason whatsoever (this happened just last night). I suspect that a lot of it has to do with jealousy and feelings of inadequacy on their part.

I was also acquaintances with a guy in real life; as soon as I met him he friended me on Facebook. We were acquaintances and hung out with mutual friends for a while and than one day he decided to defriend me. I asked why the next time I saw him and his excuse was that we "just don't talk that much." He is a very "popular" guy... at least in his mind. He's the type who goes out everywhere, hangs out with everyone, and is considered a big deal by some, but he's really just arrogant and also somewhat insecure. I friended him again but he declined, it was totally okay by me since he's not a great person anyway. (He also has hundreds of "friends" on Facebook.)

Some people are just that way sometimes. I've had a lot of people defriend me probably because we never talk; but I also have a few people as friends who are complete strangers to me yet they haven't defrended me and probably never will. Oh well... that's just how it is.
All I can tell you is to not let it get to you. It's not worth getting worked up over someone deleting your from their online friend list. It's just one person who probably doesn't value your friendship/acquaintanceship enough. Guess that's part of life.