I cannot stress this enough. If someone did SOMETHING WRONG, tell them first!

For example, this girl I was friends with for years blocks and removes me, gives zero explanation. Since I have a mental condition that makes me seek stuff like this out, I spent almost two months trying to get an explanation (but mostly to get our DMs back). TWO MONTHS. If she had just taken 30 seconds to type out a quick response and told me not to contact her again, that would have been the end of it. She did have good reasons for it, but she never told me I was making her uncomfortable, so it was her fault. Was I really supposed to find out someone I considered one of my best friends online for four years blocked me everywhere with no reason given and be perfectly fine with it?

This same thing happened to me again this year but there is literally NOTHING I said or sent leading up to it that could have offended him into blocking me, literally no good reason in sight. I go to send him a message, not added. WTF. Send friend request. Request denied, BLOCKED. WHAT... THE FUCK.

I wish I didn't have this mental thing so I could just go "Well, if they're too much of a spineless coward to tell me why, fuck 'em to Hell."

If you feel the need to block somebody, tell them why and if you should attempt contact again. You'll save yourself a lot of trouble having to do with the person making new accounts and sending his or her friends after you for an explanation. It's a common fucking courtesy that'll save both the blocker and the blocked a lot of grief.

For this reason, I can safely say (in my opinion from person experience) that block systems are more often abused by spineless pussies who would rather take the cowards way out than deal with the problem like a mature adult and tell someone the problem before than it's actually used to block haters, trolls, blah blah blah. The block button is just an easy way out that pisses the other person off. I'm not saying everybody who blocks somebody is a spineless pussy, only the people who don't bother with an explanation or possible future hassles (like the one I mentioned above). If you have a problem with someone sending you a bunch of messages or asking to RP or just plain old don't seem to know what NO means, say that you would rather not talk to them anymore. If they keep it up, then block.

In my opinion, blocks should only last a year, 365 days because chances are you blocked somebody for a stupid reason, one year later chances are you don't care anymore but can't be bothered to/just forgot to unblock them, so the newly-unblocked can apologize or make amends, etc. If this person is someone you want blocked forever (crazy ex-boyfriend who won't stop spamming you with threats and his gross nudes, for example) or was a previously blocked person who still hasn't gotten over it and threatens you, no hard task; just block them again and set a Reminder for next year. Call this idea stupid if you want, it doesn't matter if blocking systems stay the way they are or get changed to lasting only a year; whichever way it is, there's gonna be people who will get screwed over by it. Heck, possibly even LESS then a full year because once I found I had been blocked months after it had happened, I asked for an explanation somewhere else, and they didn't even remember doing it.

Oh, and their should be either an option to report abuse of the block feature or send somebody one last message if they just went straight for the button.
Another idea, when you go to block somebody, you should be forced to give a reason which the blockee would receive.

I just had to get this off my chest and vent because I shouldn't even have to make this journal.