Unfriending a new friend in Facebook

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@luisga814 (7138)
Quezon City, Philippines
May 19, 2023 12:51pm CST
Hi there, hope you're doing well right now. Today is May 20, 2023 at 1:14am in my timezone. I just reached home from my work in a new company of my work shift at 2pm-10pm (May 19, 2023) around 11:15pm. And since Saturday and Sunday will be my rest days, I'm now attending my other online activities such as myLot, YouTube, Facebook, etc. Anyway, the discussion that I'm going to open here is about unfriending a new friend in Facebook. Sounds confusing? Last April 26, 2023, I started a work in the new company. On the first day of training, getting know each other. One member of the team approaches me as she's from the previous company and same account that I've worked with. Since, coming from the same company, friendship started. Along the way of our training, I'm getting to know about her attitudes. She's an alcoholic and a smoker also. About few days ago, she had health issue, cough to be specific. I tried to warn her to stop for a while her smoking habit and concerning that her son might be infected if she'll not stop temporarily the smoking. The next day, I found out that she unfriended me in Facebook due to some reason which includes her smoking habit. Shock but even if it comes to that way, she only mentioned to me to set boundaries with my concern to her including the smoking and alcoholism addiction. In short, I'll not contradicting her addiction. I literally, set the boundaries, I never talk to her the next days. One day, she mentioned, "Brother Louie, why you're not talking to me? Please talk to me, I felt I'm guilty of what I did, my conscience talk to me about what I've decided of unfriending you." I just smile a little bit and walkaway. Continuously not talking to her. Setting the boundaries. I'm just only concern about her health specifically, she has 4-year old boy needing her special attention. I need to teach her a lesson that unfriending me because of trying to stop her addiction issue. Since, April 26, I knew to the point that she take cigarettes about at least 5 sticks a day. Then, drinking alcohol, twice a week, specifically, Friday and Saturday. In which it also affects that during our trainings, she finds time to sleep for about 2-3 minutes while our trainer is discussing. In which, if she continuously doing that, her work status will at risk. I know one of our co-workers, in which one of friends also is the one telling her that she should not listen to me. I have no right to stop her addiction habit. Then, after knowing that, that other friend, I unfriended that also. I was unfriended by my former co-worker in other company but still a co-worker in the new company however with boundaries. And I unfriended the other one who's telling to her not to listen to me. Just like, I'm an angel trying to stop something with her addiction and the other one is a devil trying to convince her not to listen to me. Makes sense?
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@DaddyEvil (174575)
• United States
19 May 23
Uhm... you know I don't smoke or drink but... that would be my personal business and if you tried to tell me that it's not healthy for me to continue smoking or drinking, I would unfriend you, too. My health and the health of my family are not work related and, in my personal opinion, not something you should be addressing. As an adult, I'm perfectly capable of thinking and doing what I choose as long as it doesn't impact my work. I'm sorry if you feel otherwise but that's how most people in the US view things like this.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
20 May 23
It's all I can do to keep up with my own business, so I don't concern myself with the business of others.
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@MarieCoyle (59259)
20 May 23
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@AmbiePam (120913)
• United States
20 May 23
I know you want her health to be better, but it’s actually no one’s business to be instructing her on how to live her life. She is responsible for herself, like you are responsible for yourself. I would not want to be around someone who tried to tell me how to live, and would probably try to avoid them. Maybe she’ll see people set a good example, and be inspired, but it’s not your place to try to change her.
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@LindaOHio (222554)
• United States
20 May 23
While it's OK to politely suggest to someone once that they stop smoking, you can't keep after them. I would not mention the drinking at all.
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@Rimps85 (3211)
• India
19 May 23
it's been ages I have visited my FB....nowadays its all on Instagram
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