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Who Has Defriended You? Facebook's New Timeline Will Tell
- kariatx 15y agoI've found that Facebook's friend recommendations are a good way of being able to tell who has defriended you. For years now, in fact.
- bootload 15y ago"... Facebook's friend recommendations are a good way of being able to tell who has defriended you. ..." how?
- SkyMarshal 15y agoSounds like FB is recommending people he thought he was already friends with, but who stealth-defriended him somewhere along the way.
- bootload 15y ago"... FB is recommending people he thought he was already friends with ..." That would sound right. Must friend a lot of people not to notice silent drops. FB gives you a numeric number on your friends list.
- kariatx 15y agoOr just not care enough about Facebook to keep track of the number - which is the case for me.
- kariatx 15y agoExactly. If I look at the recommended friends page, people who defriended me are often near the top (probably because of the high number of mutual friends). In this case, "he" is a "she", btw :-)
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- farnsworth 15y agoNot that big of a deal. I thought at first the article was implying it would tell you when you were defriended, which would be slightly more... irritating.
- alexdias 15y agoAccording to BuzzFeed, which was linked in the article, this was already fixed by Facebook. http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/how-to-find-out-who-has-unfriended-you-on-the-new http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/how-to-find-out-who-has-unfri... Quote: UPDATE: Apparently Facebook fixed this “problem” already. Major bummer. This was one of the best parts about the new Timeline!
- hugh3 15y agoWell, it's always been possible to see if someone has defriended you. Just search for their name, or click it on someone else's wall post, or whatever. On the other hand, the idea that facebook will deliberately remind you of people with whom you were once and no longer are friends (for whatever reason) seems unnecessary. Oh wait, I just read alexdias's comment that they've already fixed this. Never mind then. Also I don't have this new timeline feature yet.
- jaredsohn 15y agoAlso, you can use Better Facebook (http://betterfacebook.net/ http://betterfacebook.net/) and defriend monitoring services to make it more obvious to you.
- estel 15y agoUhh, only if you regularly search for everyone you know you were previously friends to, yes.
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- baddox 15y agoCan't you already do that? Just look through your wall posts and other activity, and find people that interacted with you. Either they're your friend, or they're not. Is the point of this article that Timeline just makes it easier?
- jaredsohn 15y agoSome people have friended you in the past but have never interacted with you (so there won't be any posts or other activity on the wall). Yes, Facebook automatically posts that 'Sue is now friends with Joe' on your wall but that gets removed when someone defriends you.
- cellis 15y agoThis is nothing new. You've been able to do set difference on your historical friend data as an FB API developer since the beginning.
- hippich 15y agohm, if the only way to find out that someone de-friended you is to see it in your timeline, may be this "friend" is not really a friend for you anyway?