Huge meltdown after unfriending everyone on Facebook

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I have been on Facebook for around a year now. It was something that took me a lot of courage to do at first, but soon I quickly grew to enjoy being able to post my arts and crafts for the world to see and talk about special things happening in my life. And playing games, yeah that too. But in order to increase the play value of such games you have to make "friends". So I did, and for a while things were okay. But lately people would keep posting more and more stupid things I can't stand seeing, trying to force their opinions on me, telling me why everything I do is so wrong and therefor I the most horrible human in the world , posting non-stop about subjects I hate: weed is fun and okay and should be legal, guns are good and everyone should have one to kill in self-defense, soldiers who kill in war are "heros", spanking is not child abuse and all children who are not spanked grow into disrespectful and end up in prison, and don't even get me started on anything positive about god or religion. I would either try to ignore it or hide the post but last night was the last straw and I couldn't take any more. I unfriended everyone and then afterwards I had an awful meltdown, the worst one in a while where I even took one of my dining-room chairs and broke it. Of course now I only have 3 chairs and that will be such a problem because I have SO many friends and relatives who drop in to chat and see how I'm doing. NOT. Well, I guess I really must be a really evil psychopath for what I did. I'm a loner who can't handle having to tolerate other people's beliefs no matter how stupid they sound to me so I must really be on the verge of being a serial killer like all aspies supposedly are, and need to be locked up and isolated even more from the outside world before I hurt anyone other than myself.

I have learned a lot about people on Facebook and sometimes it is disheartening. The thing about FB is that it is what you make it. Sounds like you did the right thing getting rid of friends that upset you.
Try to relax. Nothing terrible has happened.

I just cancelled it. For about the same reasond. The religion bashing athiests really bothered me the most. Religion didn't have anything to do with it either.

Mine's locked down so it's only viewable by friends, and it is pretty hard to get on my friends list. I have to actually like you (not just click a button that says like on it), have met you in person, and be likely to meet you again in person in future. Knowing someone on my friends list is no way to get friended. I don't even have members of my own family on my facebook, and only a very small number of friends from school (as in less than 5).

Some people on Facebook add like 500 friends on their Facebook, but don't speak or even know half of them. It feels like people only have all this friends on Facebook to make themselves look popular.

Personally I don't use Facebook that way. I only have people who I know and like and trust, including family. That only gives me about 45 Facebook friends altogether. It might not look much, but I'm not going to start adding everybody then only making my news feed visible to those that I know, otherwise what's the point of having all those others in your friends list? See, it seems to just be a way of making yourself look more popular on Facebook. Besides, who wants to keep having to scroll through like 500 friends in your friends list when looking for someone in particular? I'm sorry, I don't play that game.

Facebook can make people feel isolated and depressed. It has happened to me, because just recently everybody as young as me seems to have found a lover all at once, which has made them so excited that they keep posting about their love lives on Facebook. Even my other Aspie friends are doing it. It makes me feel like such a loner. I don't like to delete them just for that reason, so I have made it so I can't see their news feed on my Facebook wall.