How often do you trim your "Friends" lists?

[Spatial]

I tend to do it from time to time - usually it's on the 360 if someone's dropped down to Silver for a good while, which means I'm not going to be playing online with them.

I'd like to think that most people on the list (the majority of which are from on here) are mature enough to realise why and /or not take it as a personal slight. I usually end up adding them again at some point when we start gaming in a mutual title.

Some people don't half treat it like you've personally urinated on their chips though. One member on here (who shall remain nameless) sent me a message which basically went:

"WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS??!! WHYYYYYYYYYYYY???!!"

Scary stuff. Suffice to say they weren't added again...

[Geoff D]

Do you get a message if you get dropped from someone's list?

[Spatial]

No it just removes them - although I do like the idea of then getting a " Person X has dumped you!" message

[C']

As I don’t game online an awful lot (limited mostly to games of Street Fighter 4 every so often when I’m in the mood) I don’t have a massive friend list anyway. Like a couple of other people have mentioned the little pop up notifications when people come online (and, on PSN, offline D: ) are a little annoying so I don’t feel the need to have a massive friend list for the sake of having them on there, so have had very little need to trim the list in the first place I guess. I have turned down a fair few requests (most from the forum) purely because I didn’t any compatibility in the games played based on forum posts so having them on there didn’t seem worthwhile.

I did add a few people when there were SF4 tournaments a couple of months back and kept most of the people on for a while for future matches but when nothing happened after a couple of weeks, cleared them off again.

For me personally, my nature means I am very unlikely to send an invite to anyone to play a game for fear that I interrupt them in the middle of something else.

There are a few people who I will always keep on there though (people I play FFXI with and a couple of real life friends) but even then I can’t recall ever actually playing an online 360/PS3 title with them in a long time.

[Geoff D]

No it just removes them - although I do like the idea of then getting a " Person X has dumped you!" message

I'm all for it - I don't know who's on my list, so an indication of when I've been given the big E would be good

[Pilotwings]

I just keep some of my Fifa club mates from rllmuk on, have 19 at the moment I think. Have never had more than 30 on it.

I only have 2 real life friends on it.

[Btang84]

I tend not to know too many people with a PS3 so I haven't minded people adding me on the forums, even if it is the case I don't play with them. It's a good way to know what games are the most current and it's always interesting to see what else people might play.

Also, I recently had a scare from a forumite here not too long ago. Somebody by the name of timlee10 added me on PSN. I would like to know who it was.... reveal yourself!!!

To cut a fairly long story short, a girl from my secondary school has joined a religious Christian cult for several years and it is her job to recruit people into this group. There is a chance that one of her prospectives is me, and her husband is called Tim Lee, which is why I got the fright of my life when I saw that timlee10 added me as a friend. It's always always a good idea to say NTSC-uk in the message as others have done so we know who we are adding. Alternative, you could have put "scary religious cult" and trigger a heart attack.

[Jebus]

Some people don't half treat it like you've personally urinated on their chips though. One member on here (who shall remain nameless) sent me a message which basically went:

"WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS??!! WHYYYYYYYYYYYY???!!"

Scary stuff. Suffice to say they weren't added again...

Come on, you can't not tell us now!!

[NoelEdwards]

My friends list is made up of people I know in real life & people from here.
Only people I've removed in the past is people I've met on games like cod4 then removed when they bombard me with message's to play a cod4 with them when I'm playing pes09 or something.

[dotoko]

I've NEVER even had a friend!

Bit depressing really, I guess it's just down to the fact none of my "actual" friends are gamers/PS3 owners. Also this is the only forum/online community I use, and I haven't really bonded with anyone here because... well basically I'm just a bit of a twat...

[ezee ryder]

My friends list usually floating around the 99 or full mark. If I need to add someone then person who last on ages ago usually gets deleted.

By the way the name of this thread reads "how often do you trim your..." on the main forum page....all sorts of weird thoughts ran through my head.

[Brats]

I used to keep mine constantly at 100, but this thread has inspired me to have a purge to just people that I play reguarly with or have met in real life.

So if I've just deleted you, blame Jebus!

Nowadays I tend to game with a fairly small crowd who like the same games as me. As much as loads of you lot seem like decent chaps, I'm usually sorted most nights (sorry).

The only game I love that my mates aren't bothed with is Burnout Paradise, so if you ever fancy a game, send me a FR.

[prinnysquad]

I can't remember ever deleting anyone off my list, although I've been deleted plenty of times. It's fair enough, I probably didn't ever play with those people. It's often telling that I only know someone's gone because of the drop in numbers, most of the time I don't even know who it is.

I keep my list intact because I do play with quite a few of the guys on it - no matter how irregularly - and I like to see what others are playing. If someone's playing a game I'm interested in I'll ask them about it. Some fit into the sentimental category - I've one guy on my list since day one on live, can't remember how or why he's on there, but I wouldn't delete him, for every irrational reason you can think of.

[MJ]

My 360 list is around 50 people big at the moment and once in a while I go through it and clean it up.

[iMad]

When I decide to reduce my friend list, my rule is to remove those who have not been online for the longest time. Except of course if I persnollay know them.