Facebook Timeline Shows Who Has Unfriended You

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."

Comments

Moar drama!

[Anonymous Coward]

Expect 43% more butthurt in the coming weeks.

Done With That

[Greyfox]

I unfriended Facebook. Google may not be any less evil, but they make it dead easy to control who my posts go to, don't spam me with game spam bullshit every couple of days and they don't change my profile and settings every couple of months without so much as a "by-your-leave."

Re:Done With That

[__Paul__]

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.

Re:Sooo?

[somersault]

That's like saying you can easily find that you've lost something by taking a full inventory of your house each week. If you don't suspect something has gone missing, why would you be checking/making the list?

doesn't work any more.

[dirtyhippie]

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.

Re:doesn't work any more.

[darkjohnson]

Yes, it appears FB 'fixed' this already - there is a note about it on the original 'how to' page.

Wasn't your friend in the first place

[Anonymous Coward]

If you cannot tell by looking at your friends list whom has dropped you as a friend. You weren't really friends with that person anyways.

I find people who have 300-400 "friends" rather ridiculous, they need to have an "I met this person once" list instead of a friends list.

Re:Wasn't your friend in the first place

[DarkOx]

Which in itself is another social - stress-or. Everybody has "close" friends and every on in a social group can usually tell who each others best friends are. You are kinda in a person's top three and they are almost always in yours or you are not.

Its always pretty clear and there is really no way to conceal it. Its tolerated we all understand we can't all be each others best friends. Beyond that I think its really rather impolite to rank and classify your "friends". I think I generally have a pretty thick skin but I certainly would not feel good about X effectively making a public announcement that I mean less to him or her than Y. I would not want to make such an announcement about X or Y myself.

Re:Sooo?

[blackest_k]

sometimes friends go missing for a while and pop back up, sometimes its because they want to get away from facebook sometimes it is just random. it used to bother me when friends came and went, you always think it's something you did. After a while you realise that you have just drifted apart so far there is only memories in common.

it's almost as bad as friends reunited, which is more people who used to go to the same places as me years ago.

Mandatory Munroe Mention

[KingAlanI]

http://xkcd.com/276/

Aha!

[KingAlanI]

So that's what happened to the person who did not Like my social and political commentary...
I thought so, would like clear indicators

You can already do this...

[Stenchwarrior]

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

People do not actually care

[betterunixthanunix]

Most people do not actually care. They love being able to follow what all their friends, acquaintances, and former boyfriends and girlfriends are doing. They love the idea that other people are following what they are doing. If people really cared about their privacy, they would ditch Facebook entirely.

BetterFacebook

[thomp]

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.

Re:Sooo?

[bitt3n]

That's like saying you can easily find that you've lost something by taking a full inventory of your house each week. If you don't suspect something has gone missing, why would you be checking/making the list?

because the bar doesn't open till noon