Please reassure me I have nothing to feel bad about...

[SolidSonicMania]

One of my friends keeps pestering me and I'm getting tired of it and want to remove them but I need to do so without feeling guilty because they just sound like a lonely person who has no one who wants to interact with the way they want.

[Aachen]

Have you tried direct communication of your issue?

[SolidSonicMania]

Not...yet.

[peppermint hollows]

Oprindeligt skrevet af SolidSonicMania:

Not...yet.

Then perhaps you should do that.

[Realigo Actual]

Report them to Steam support for harassment.

[peppermint hollows]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Realigo Actual:

Report them to Steam support for harassment.

Someone being annoying isn't harassment.

[Ogami]

Oprindeligt skrevet af SolidSonicMania:

Not...yet.

Then do that. Just be honest and tell them that their current behavior makes you annoyed and they should please tone it down/stop.
If they then still continue as always you can just block/remove them.
But i feel its always better to tell others if you have a problem with them and give them the chance to change.
Just blocking someone without the person knowing that they did anything wrong is kind of a cowardly move.

[Heraclius Caesar]

If this person is pestering you then yes remove them from your friends list.

Sometimes you just have to cut some people.

Hell, I've removed friends of years from my friends list just for flooding my activity feed with screenshots or adding 300 things in a row to their favorites. That sort of thing is really annoying to me personally since it feels like endlessly scrolling through it just to see other activity. I give no warnings nor politely ask them to cut it out, I just remove them. They clearly had no common courtesy or consideration for me so I have none for them.

It is what it is. Life is too short to have to be bothered by annoying people with annoying behaviors.

[SolidSonicMania]

But he told me he's got a social-personality disorder (which, honestly, I was kind of able to divine from his original contact with me) and for that reason it kind of makes it understandable that he might make it a little hard for them to understand when their behavior is becoming unwelcome.

So that's why I'm hesitant to actually come out and just say it. But...it's also annoying.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

People online are not your friends.

[THE LORD]

Is your friend a guy and you're also a guy? Tell him you're in love with him and you want to marry him.

[Riddley Walker]

Don't remove him as a friend, just block him. more gentle. You just won't answer his messages. Maybe you are just offline for a long time.

[JD]

Oprindeligt skrevet af SolidSonicMania:

But he told me he's got a social-personality disorder.

That explains it all.

[AlienTestosterone]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Rumpelcrutchskin:

People online are not your friends.

Let him figure it out.

[Shiro♌]

Oprindeligt skrevet af SolidSonicMania:

But he told me he's got a social-personality disorder (which, honestly, I was kind of able to divine from his original contact with me) and for that reason it kind of makes it understandable that he might make it a little hard for them to understand when their behavior is becoming unwelcome.

So that's why I'm hesitant to actually come out and just say it. But...it's also annoying.

If you really wanna help him out, first have a conversation about that all.
Do ask him whether he's actually interested in learning how to get over that.. Because if there's no interest, then he's not gonna listen to a word you say, resulting in one sided conversations.. And that's definitely not healthy for you, both, in the short and long run.

I do get where you're coming from.. But even those who wanna be there for the other people need to prioritize their own health first and foremost, as there's no way to help somebody out if you can't even help yourself.