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that you should actually remove immediately

Let's be honest: life is simply too short to spend your time on annoying Facebook updates. Everyone has something to say these days: old classmates, that couple from vacation, that really annoying colleague... Do we really need to read all of this? Nope, not anymore from now on.

I seriously see people in my feed with more than 3000 friends on Facebook. How is that possible? And aren't these people going completely crazy from the info stress and very uninteresting updates about train trips, babies, cooking scenes, and business?

Time to thoroughly check my FB friends. Secretly, there are already 906 of them. That's actually way too many.

But that also immediately explains my whole point: that's why I see so many uninteresting things passing by! And the important photos of friends that I would have liked to see are buried under a whole mountain of junk. Recognizable? With all the ‘friends’ we have gathered, it might also be time for a Big Clean-up. Below are a number of types that you can easily miss in your Facebook feed:

These people have very few people at home to talk to and love to criticize someone on Facebook. But of course, anonymously, otherwise it's not classy. The cryptic friend sends English sentences with sour undertones. The ’what goes around comes around“ people.

Is there a boat missing? Is the Black Pete discussion flaring up again or is a children's toy lost? Don’t worry, the Sharing Mothers will keep you updated. Often with hilarious little texts above like: “Wow, what is happening in the world again.”

This person immediately likes everything you do. Sometimes even in the same minute, probably because you are marked as a favorite. Conversely, you also have the sneaky stalker: actually a rival who sees everything passing by, clicks everywhere, but never likes anything. likes. Creepy, these people.

“Just did a nice laundry. Now with my feet on the couch.” No, we don’t want to read that, we don’t need to read that. Click, gone, bye.

Only. But. Baby photos. Continuously. The first few times, the pictures score hundreds of likes, because who doesn’t love babies? But after four weeks, we are actually done with the daily updates.

Whole chunks of text about life. And especially about everything that goes wrong and how hard it all is. “Today was the worst day of my life and I don’t want to talk about it,” I saw that one pass by recently. Okay, fine, then don’t talk about it. This person is also not averse to an English sentence or fighting a little quarrel on Facebook. You actually feel a kind of vicarious embarrassment every time he/she posts something.

Okay, you are friends on Facebook, but why don’t you both know? Was it from a night out? Did you just accept without looking? Who IS this person actually?

Don’t waste your precious time hate-stalking former friends and ex-lovers. Just don’t. It may be difficult at first, but it’s really good for your mind and health not to see these updates flying by anymore.

Of course, she burned 865 calories in the gym today again, while last week she was lying on a tropical island uploading photos of thick chocolate cakes with the text: “I never gain weight and #sorrynotsorry.”

Many studies have been done on the effect of Facebook on our lives, and ultimately, every study shows that the site can greatly amplify gloomy feelings through social comparisons. While it’s about time we stop that. And I get it: it’s quite difficult. But really, if you feel jealous feelings bubbling up for that old classmate who just got engaged, but with whom you have no contact otherwise: remove that person. In short: unfriend people who are no longer relevant. Goodbye annoying updates, hello happy life!

Written by Kiki Düren