My 'adopted' daughter felt like this. All of her friends were just a mess and many were mean. I told her to go online and to banish the worst offender very publicly at midnight. That 'friend' and a few other snotty ones just trashed my girl, but she didn't yield. By 10pm, the doomed one changed her tune, even apologized but my girl would not budge and at midnight, banned her from all access. Next morning, many people cheered her for her strength. I told her to now pick whoever was worst of the rest of them and do the same thing every two days for 10 days. It was wonderful. Before the ten days passed, all the remaining 'friends' now her champions, came unannounced to her door and begged to not be banished. She said the only rule from now on is: NO MEAN PEOPLE. Don't be mean to her plus don't ever say or post anything mean about anybody ever again. And it worked! Soon, all her mean, loser friends started turning their lives around. Finishing school getting married, all that. My girl was so happy.

But then (and I'd foretold it plainly to her), nature abhors a vacuum, and that every banished person left an empty slot in her time and that each bad one gone would be replaced with a good one. And it happened. Today, her closest friends are genuine, she's planning a wedding with a wonderful young man, and all is right with the world.

So consider this. If you banish someone who is not really a true friend, and do it publicly, suddenly all the rest will wake up. The good ones will rally and the lackluster ones will bad-mouth you. Hee hee... you know what to do