Does everyone make a big deal out of whether or not they're Facebook friends with someone?

[ezio]

Sometimes I wonder because it can feel like certain people talk to me differently or talk less than we used to after we are no longer Facebook friends. Notice I didn't say who unfriended whom. Do you guys ever notice with people you know?

[Jasmine]

Yea. Yea

[Yahoo user]

Life is great but not with friends you imagine are real.

[Tracy]

My co-workers made a big deal about it. I deleted my facebook for a year and when I reactivated it, I added most of my co-workers except for maybe a couple, including one I didn't like too much. We were talking about it one night at work and long story short, she realized she was the only one I wasn't facebook friends with and I had to add her that night, so she would feel better.
Some people get offended if you're not facebook friends. Some people will delete you if you annoy them. It's really childish and passive-aggressive: You don't talk to me, so I don't wanna see your face online anymore.
Facebook is just annoying in my opinion. It shouldn't affect your friendships or personal life as much as it does.

[jenniferology]

Some people do. I don't. I have sisters, nieces, nephews, friends from church that I have not added, refuse to add and have deleted. I personally do not want EVERYONE I know on my facebook. Neither do I try to be facebook friends with EVERYONE I know. And one thing that truly irritates me is that when a person I know but have no close dealings want to be "facebook friends" yet this same person and I do not hold conversations together..only a hello here and there. For those I have refused to add, if I do add and me & that person still do not have no close dealings I will delete.

I feel if my friendship with someone is purely based on facebook interactions then we are truly not friends.

[Robbie]

A lot of people do.
And it is understandable. Ignoring and excluding people is just a dumb and douche bag thing to do in a social situation. Whether it is facebook or a party, If you include some and exclude others you are making a very clear statement that you do not like these people.
It's fine to not like a co-worker but of course you keep this to yourself. Making them know you don't like them by not adding them to facebook is just an arrogant and douche bag thing to do and it jeopardizes the workplace for everyone. The same goes for classmates, family and friends.
just know that the ones who exclude some people from facebook are usually the ones that consider facebook to be more important than it really is.
If you don't really think facebook is that important you also have no problem adding people on it that you don't like.

So, be social. Don't cause problems in social situations like school or your workplace for you and others and don't see facebook as a really important thing and add everyone you know personally.