Usually unfriending someone is a process that lets you slip quietly off their radar. That girl from high school you hung out with once is boring, so with the click of a button she’s out of your life. She may come across your profile again someday and try to remember if you were ever even Facebook friends. Easy! That is until now, thanks to the new “Unfriend Finder” app.
“Unfriend Finder” is exactly what it sounds like: a system that alerts users when someone unfriends them. It really sounds like quite the confidence-booster, and now you can sit around analyzing what recent activity may have spurred your cousin’s best friend’s sister to dissolve your last thread of connection.
The app, which 44 million people have already downloaded, “adds a little ‘Unfriends’ section to your profile, showing who has dropped you from their friends list, showing who has declined your friend request, and even putting a little red counter of total ‘unfriends’ in your menu bar.” Who wants to torture themselves like this? [via Gawker]
What do you think of the app?
orchid / 109 posts
Another reason not to have Facebook!
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That is such a stupid app. I don’t need help feeling awful. Psh.
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This is terrible sounding. I already have my News Feed to remind me of all the “great” relationships I’m not in, and all the weddings I’m not having, and all the babies I also don’t have with my awesome husband.
Ohhh Facebook.
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That’s why I haven’t had my Facebook since July 2011. More ways to be stalk-y online? No thank you.
tulip / 20 posts
WHY in the world would they make that? For the person who was unfriended, it will be a blow to the self esteem. To the person who is doing the unfriending…what if you are unfriending an ex simply for your health and sanity? We used to be able to do that discreetly and know that no one’s feelings would be hurt. Hmmph.. Guess I can’t unfriend my ex now. Oh, well, that’s why I left Facebook.
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Yeah, I don’t see how it’s that good of an idea. I really only have family on my facebook page, so I wouldn’t really need it.
orchid / 194 posts
I really don’t want to know if someone unfriends me. If I care about them, I’ll notice on my own when I try to go to their page to stalk, uh, I mean, see what they’re up to. If I don’t care about them, I’ll probably never notice, and if I do, I won’t care.
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oh….great…….super.
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I temporarily deactivated my Facebook a while back, and only one friend texted me about it to make sure I was okay…It was because of this app. that he figured out I wasn’t on his friend’s list anymore. I was off Facebook for a week and no one else even noticed….It may seem kind of lame, but if you’ve got a friend who worries about you, it’s helpful for them to have, I guess.
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That is such a horrible idea. Apparently there are 44 million sadistic people out there.
Or maybe its the drama of being like, “OMG DAT BITCH DEFRIENDED MEEE”. With like 14 year olds and such.
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I dislike this idea completely. Sometimes I delete people just because we never talk anymore. It’s not to be offensive or anything.. it’s just, we don’t talk. Why be friends on the internet if we’re not in person? The only reason I have a facebook is because I have friends all over the globe and also I know people who don’t have a phone, etc. It’s just a convenient way of keeping in touch. Now I have to over analyze deleting people as well as adding people -.- damnit facebook..
sunflower / 448 posts
I love it! I use Social Fixer (which lets you totally customize your facebook and includes this ability). I like knowing who has no business calling me a friend and who I should let go. I usually do the “in your face” thing to people and immediately friend request them so they know I noticed. If I don’t care…I don’t add them obviously. But I like to let people know they can’t be jerks to me and me not know.
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This is just another way for people to become engulfed in social media by seeing how unpopular you are. Why go through that if you don’t need to. Its like people changing their phone numbers. Sheesh. It happens. People grow apart and others just don’t want to be bothered. Its another unnecessary stalking tool to make you more crazy.
rose / 791 posts
I hate it. People are way too concerned about Facebook.
orchid / 184 posts
Tuh! Wow…..I won’t be downloading that app. I’d rather focus on my life and cheer on the people who are still on my friends list than be concerned with who doesn’t like me.
magnolia / 1357 posts
Wow… I’ve deleted hundreds of people off my facebook, mainly high school classmates and people with who(m) I only had one class during my now 10 semesters of college (yay for changing majors and losing 9 out of 14 classes!).
I really don’t want to go back home and have people ask me why I deleted them. Although I hope they don’t care.
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Why would someone even do that to themselves? Usually the people I unfriend or who unfriend me are people I couldn’t care about. If it was someone of importance, whose unfriending would cause me any alarm, I’d probably pick up on it without the app.
Dumb. Just another way for people to cause drama. *cough*@NightCometh@xanga*cough*
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Facebook is supposed to be fun! That said, I really only have people that are already close friends on it. And I’m 26, so that doesn’t change every week.
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I remove people off my facebook list, and some people remove me.
I’ll probably notice, but it’s not like I’m going to fret about it.
That just seems unhealthy to me.
Most of the removing comes from people I don’t really keep in touch with, or really communicate. So, it’s not like it’s a huge deal.
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Unfriend Finder….LOLOLOL seriously?? In case you’re SO dependent on social media that you need to keep tabs on who is no longer keeping tabs on you. That’s fucking ridiculous. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that if you use this app and take it seriously, you need to find a new hobby that is of more worth to society and to yourself.
daffodil / 1601 posts
I wouldn’t really care about being unfriended unless it was someone I actually talked to. Oh, you mean random girl I went to high school with unfriended me? Pfft.
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I am not sure how Facebook, something that is not real, can affect someone’s self-esteem. If someone is personally affected by a ‘de-friending’, then there are major personal issues. Facebook is NOT real life.
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I’m pretty much with@Digital_Angel21@xanga - here.
what I find creepy is the decline friend request thing. That should remain secret at least.
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@under_the_carpet@xanga - That I can understand be annoyed about, depending on a situation.
In high school, I friended this girl who I had been practically best friends with a couple years before and though we weren’t as close anymore, we still went to school together and ran in the same circle of friends. I never understood why she declined my friend request, it was a bit of a bitch move. But alas, I went to college and didn’t really give a shit after that. Only other time I’ve been declined was when I friended a classmate’s dog. I learned shortly after said classmate didn’t really like me because he went out of his way not to invite me to his one party. He is the stereotypical bitchy gay guy.
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Dumped Facebook 2 months ago, couldn’t be happier.
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I don’t like it. Knowing about it has made me afraid to unfriend people, for fear of offending them. I liked having control over my list of Facebook friends, and I feel now that they can see unfriends, social manners prevent me from having as much control over my Facebook as I did before. This has also made me more cautious about friending people, because it makes removing them harder.
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lol.
hydrangea / 86 posts
I don’t usually un-friend people on Facebook. I keep them until I piss them off to a point that they leave on their own.
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I hate facebook.
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I like the idea of it because sometimes I stumble upon people whom I’m quite confident I added on facebook already but I decide not to ask for a request again since I figured they deleted me.
No more confusion!
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I kinda like it..
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Who cares who deletes you. If you haven’t noticed then, then the friendship didn’t really matter anyways. Family is different. I had cousins delete me but who cares, we are still blood and I will see them during our family reunion mwahahaaahah >:p.
Or, if you really wanna feel awful, trying not having a life and look at the pics of those who are traveling and doing stuff while you are stuck at home doing nothing.
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@looloo11268@xanga - Ha, true. That makes me feel awful @_@
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@wobster109@xanga - I know right. They will attack and try re-adding you a million times. People seriously need to get a life and stop focusing on a fantasy. It’s Facebook!
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This is pointless and stupid.
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that is terrible. I need to stay far away from that.