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Facebook Timeline Shows Who Has Unfriended You

Posted by timothy on from the but-aunt-lucy-it-was-just-a-figure-of-speech dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Currently, Facebook does not notify you when someone unfriends you on the social network. That may soon change with the upcoming Facebook Timeline feature, which will soon replace your current Facebook profile. Unless Facebook changes this, you can actually see who has unfriended you during any point in time while you've been on the social network."

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  1. doesn't work any more. by dirtyhippie · · Score: 4, Informative

    i just tried it. i even gave fb my phone number to do it. There was someone i know who unfriended me in 2009 (long story!), but after following all the steps, they don't show in any of the boxes. My guess is FB changed the UI to have the box show friends made that year *that are still friends* recently. Nothing to see here (anymore), move along.

  2. Re:Done With That by zullnero · · Score: 2, Informative

    You should check out Diaspora*, just saying. If you are concerned about having to choose between the lesser of two evils and all. They're currently rolling out invites for the beta, so be patient.

  3. You can already do this... by Stenchwarrior · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...with a script for Greasemonkey called Unfriend Finder. You have to install Greasemonkey addon for Firefox first.

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  4. BetterFacebook by thomp · · Score: 3, Informative

    Get BetterFacebook for your browser. You can see all kinds of activity that FB doesn't show you.

    Also, you can already make lists of people in Facebook, so you can separate your close friends from your not-so-close friends.

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  5. Re:Done With That by __Paul__ · · Score: 3, Informative

    As I understand it, diaspora had two selling points: one it was not under the control of a large corporation who could abuse you, and two you were able to choose who you shared what with. Google+ scooped that second feature already, and it probably won't be long before facebook does too if they haven't already

    Facebook has had that for a while - at least a year, anyway, using Lists. You can choose to post updates/photos/whatever to people who are members of a list, and only those people will see it. It's worked well for quite a while - until this week, as they have changed it so that people on those lists can now see who else is on the list, which is quite a step backwards. Unfortunately, it mirrors Google+ behaviour in this regard.

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