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Losing a Facebook/Orkut/Linkedin friend

Started by Jure Cuhalev · 9 months ago

Some time ago I read Cory Doctorows editorial about possible ways that your ex-coworkers will kill Facebook; because your colleagues and bosses will want to be friends on Facebook with their employees, and in process invade privacy of things they do in their personal life and would rather keep i ... Continue reading »

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  • Dusan Smolnikar

    1 year ago

    I don't think de-friending your boss would stop him from spying on you if he wanted.. If you really wanted that, I guess you should de-friend everyone you know, who knows someone, who knows your boss.

    I'm still not getting this social networking thing though. 5 years ago I was considered a freak for hanging around forums and icq, today I'm lame for not having a facebook or myspace account. What has happened during these 5 years? But I have a flickr account, a gravatar, an openid, ... and again that's considered geeky. Should I just wait a few years?
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  • jype

    1 year ago

    Losing a friend.

    The word loosing has no meaning (but loosening does).
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  • Jure Cuhalev

    1 year ago

    Thanks jype. Fixed.
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  • Jure Cuhalev

    1 year ago

    Dusan, you should use whatever your girlfriend uses. This will allow you to stay hip all the time :)
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  • Brian King

    1 year ago

    Facebook now tells you that the friend you are removing will not be notified. But I wonder, do you stay on their friend list, and can they still see your full profile? If so, this amazes me and certainly does not meet expectations.
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  • Xavier

    1 year ago

    Trying to figure outin which sense your comments are "less nice" than before.
    The only problem is that I don't know how nice were your comments before, so it doesn't help ;-)

    See you!
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  • Anna

    1 year ago

    I think it's tough to say why you are defriending- I just defriended someone on FB because I acknowledged to myself that I didn't enjoy her company at dinner, rarely talked to her, so why be up on every little status change? Or when you're breaking up with someone, do they really need to know why you defriended them? It's kind of obvious. I think the more people use social networks the more they realize that it's easier to not add acquaintances in the first place. Question for you- while Andrez wasn't notified of being dropped, did he see you in his friendlist? In other words, is the functionality bidirectional or just unidirectional?
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  • Jure Cuhalev

    1 year ago

    Anna: Andraz also stopped seeing me in his friends list. It's bidirectional.
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