Unfriending someone I am not interested in

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In a most recent post, I broke off a dating relationship with someone who was a minor acquaintance that I had been talking on facebook with for a year. I had told him on Sunday that I did not think it was okay for us to date online.

A) We had different belief systems
B) We are at different places in our lives
C) I was not interested begin with which often left him at the bottom of my list

We agreed to be casual friends right? He kept trying me on Facebook for the last two evenings and I just kept blowing him off or making straight answers. Then tonight he asked me how I was doing and called me "Pretty."

I finally let him know that I am not that interested in him and I also didn't feel right about being friends anymore.

He said that flirting was one of his things even though I found it to be a turn off.

He wrote back with in so many words saying, "Now I am worried that no one else will want me." I told him politely that he would meet someone else.

I also told him that I did not feel right about us being friends anymore since I did not want to be bothered with him even though he seemed like a nice guy. I also just removed him from FB.

Was there anything here that I did wrong and should have said differently?

Nope, sounds pretty good to me.

You set some boundaries, he didn't want to respect them, so you unfriended him. This sounds alright to me, too.

Why date someone you wasn't interested in?
Other than that though, you pretty much did what you believe is the right thing. I'm not saying it's wrong or right because you should know whether you made the correct choice.

I was dating him because I was trying to try my wings else where and give the guy a chance. However, I started to see that this was not a good fit.

Although I have nothing against this guy and such, I just didn't like the whole, "Now I am going to get the feeling that there was something wrong with me," line. That was a turn off.

When he kept flirting with me like that, it made me realize that it was time to let him go.