I think I'm going to block him on FB

[TheZebra]

For the last 3 hours my ex has been posting non-stop. Pictures with his new girlfriend, posts mentioning her, etc. My God, we get it, you have a new girlfriend. Yeesh. It's almost like he's bragging to ME about it.

 

If you block someone on FB, do you not see their posts anymore? I don't want to outright de-friend him, but I REALLY don't need to see him posting pictures and whatnot.

[th90]

If you intend to keep him as friend on fb, you can go to the top right of his post on your news feed and choose to unsubscribe. This way his posts/photos will not appear on your news feed anymore. That's what i did. However i found myself checking up on my ex again and again. I allowed myself to get hurt everytime i gave into temptation. So i ultimately removed him from my friends list.

[TheZebra]

Gotcha, I'll have to give that a try.

 

I never look at his profile since I stopped caring about what he was doing months ago. I just don't want to see that stuff when I'm just checking out my regular news feed. I'm happier pretending it doesn't exist lol

[salmagundi]

If you really want to stay friends and you think you're really strong enough to not compulsively check his page then unsubscribing will work.

 

But what I would do in addition is go to his page, go to his friends list and find his new girlfriend and block her. You don't need to be friends with someone to block them and what it does is make HER disappear. Its great! When she posts on his wall, you see nothing. When he tags her in photos, you can't see it.

 

Its almost, but not quite, as good as blocking him...

[Emilia]

For the last 3 hours my ex has been posting non-stop. Pictures with his new girlfriend, posts mentioning her, etc. My God, we get it, you have a new girlfriend. Yeesh. It's almost like he's bragging to ME about it.

 

If you block someone on FB, do you not see their posts anymore? I don't want to outright de-friend him, but I REALLY don't need to see him posting pictures and whatnot.

 

unfriend and block. he is an ex with a new girlfriend, he could as well be living on the moon. who cares? it's not like he cares about you.

[Els]

You CAN choose to stop seeing people's posts without defriending them.

 

But in this case don't you think defriending is the better option anyways?

[TheZebra]

The reason I don't want to defriend him is that we still agreed to stay friends. I'm pretty over him; I think I only checked his FB page once in the last two months, and that one time was when I wanted to see his new girlfriend's page. In some ways I'm still a little bitter, which is why I just wanted to stop seeing his posts and pretend nothing was happening, but I don't see myself cutting him out of my life completely because he still is a good friend.

[Own Worst Enemy]

Why not tell him openly that you are happy for him, but fb is rubbing it in your face a bit, so you're going to defriend him for a bit. However, you still want to email/text as usual.

 

If you aren't comfortable being that open, then I think blocking is the only way forward, as perhaps the bitterness (totally understandable - I'm only 3 weeks NC but I think I'd rather set fire to my hair than see what/whom my ex is up to!) might mean you're not quite as over it as you think. Yet.

[lakerman34]

Block him. Don't UNSUBSCRIBE, just BLOCK HIM!

 

It worked for me. It GREATLY helped in my moving on.

 

Actually, I didn't BLOCK her, I straight up GOT RID OF MY FACEBOOK ACCOUNT!

 

Do that. His friends will have NO idea what you are doing, he has NO way of checking up on you, you won't EVER have to see a picture of him, just get rid of ALL social networking sites. You'll feel as if fetters have been taken off afterwards. Social networking sites are stupid anyway.