Facebook has a new way to avoid unfriending awkwardness. Unfriending is an emerging trend but its still awkward deleting people on Facebook that you don’t really know or care to get Farmville requests from.
But Facebook’s updated “Acquaintance” setting could be the solution to this online netiquette dilemma. The setting was first introduced last year to allow you separate your friends into lists for “close friends” and “acquaintances” — allowing you to make Facebook posts and photo albums open to friends but not acquaintances for example. Now an update allows the tool to pick out the friends you rarely interact with and relegate them in bulk to the acquaintance zone. You’ll see fewer of their posts in your newsfeed and can hide what they can see of your activity. The best part is they’ll never know since you’re not actually unfriending them.
It’s also a way to help Facebook stem the unfriending movement. And there can be a social cost to unfriending people, causing unintentional hurt and offence, he says. Why we’re unfriending one another - The Style Blog. Posted at 12:31 PM ET, 03/13/2012 Mar 13, 2012 04:31 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost According to Pew’s most recent study on social networking sites, most users don’t agree with their friends’ political postings.
As the election approaches, it’s only going to get worse. Unfriended? Five Ways to Manage Online Rejection. Your Facebook friendships have great potential to enrich your emotional life by expanding your social horizons beyond the people you would normally interact with at home or work.
Unfortunately, though, just as Facebook can bring you up , it can also bring you down. The ending of a Facebook relationship rarely occurs in a mutually agreed-upon way. Someone decides it’s time to call the friendship off, unfriends you, and that’s it. Depending on your closeness to the other person, you may not even realize you’ve been a victim of unfriending until it dawns on you that you’re no longer seeing this person’s posts on your news feed.
When you search for the person, you’re greeted with the message “Add as friend,” if that person is even searchable, and by then your worst fears are confirmed. To unfriend or not to unfriend: That is the Facebook question. Unfriending someone online can be awkward or liberating, depending on who it is and how you do it.
CNN's "netiquette" columnists offer advice on how to politely unfriend people online Consider reaching out before you unfriend someone you've had a fight with If you dump someone, let them unfriend you first You may want to reconsider unfriending someone you will run into socially Editor's note: Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Bartz are the sarcastic brains behind humor blog and soon-to-be-book Stuff Hipsters Hate. When they're not trolling Brooklyn for new material, Ehrlich works as a news editor at Mashable.com, and Bartz holds the same position at Psychology Today. (CNN) -- We've all done it -- surfed on over to the book of faces, our hearts racing and pupils dilating with excitement, let our cursors linger over those oh-so-powerful words, "Remove From Friends," and clicked away with the maniacal glee of a serial killer.
Well, those days are as dead as Lucy's creepy gray front teeth. The ex. 7 things to consider before Facebook unfriending. Mark your calendars, Facebook masses.
November 17 is National Unfriend Day, as declared by late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel . "Friendship is a sacred thing, and I believe Facebook is cheapening it," he says. "I go on this Facebook and I see people with thousands of what they call friends, which is impossible--you can't have a thousand friends. " So Kimmel suggests examining your list of Facebook friends and only keeping the real friends (you know, as in people who've actually breathed the same air as you). Good idea, Mr. But before you go on an unfriending rampage, consider the following advice: 1. 2. 3. 4.
Sure, their behavior may warrant an unfriending, but you have another option: Hide them from your News Feed. 5. 6. 7.