Is it normal to unfriend of your high school friends on facebook?
I have always disliked Facebook, but never actually went through with deleting my account because I did not want to lose touch with a certain few people. In short, I thought that my relationship with those few people was worth more than having to see the crap on my newsfeed posted by people I loathed. Anyway, one day during my freshman year of college, when I was feeling really down and despondent, I logged onto my FB. The only posts I saw were from people I did not wish to see or hear from any longer, so I decided to go through and unfriend nearly everybody from my high school (note: this was before the "hide from newsfeed" option was available; also, none of these people go to the college I attend). I even went through all of the photos I was tagged in with them and untagged myself just so they would think I deleted my FB instead of what really happened.
I was not bullied in high school and never really had any problems with the people I unfriended. In fact, I was actually somewhat popular among them and they often invited me to their events (which I mostly declined). The plain and simple truth is that I did not like these people and felt that they weren't worth anything to me. I'm not really scared about them finding out -- something which I'm sure at least some of them did because one of them sent me a friend request afterwards -- but I often regret burning this bridge. Now that I am coming out of the social shell that I had created for myself, I do not see people the way I did before (I had developed misanthropy). But I defeated my opportunities at redefining the relationships I might have had with these people. I can't just go back and re-add them all. I don't really see any good solutions except to move on with my life and establish closer friendships with my current group of friends. Yet, the regret still lingers.
My main reason for posting this is to see if anybody else has done a similar thing and the feelings they may have had afterwards. Did you regret it at all? Or were you happy with your decision? If you haven't done what I did, have you considered doing it?
Thank you!
(note: I am not a stoner, as my username might suggest; I just thought it would be a funny username :P)