In pursuit of The Idea - Latest Comments in Losing a Facebook/Orkut/Linkedin friend

Re: Losing a Facebook/Orkut/Linkedin friend

Jure Cuhalev — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:33:44 -0000

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

Re: Losing a Facebook/Orkut/Linkedin friend

Anna — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:36:51 -0000

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?

Re: Losing a Facebook/Orkut/Linkedin friend

Xavier — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:12:59 -0000

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!

Re: Losing a Facebook/Orkut/Linkedin friend

Brian King — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:05:12 -0000

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.

Re: Losing a Facebook/Orkut/Linkedin friend

Jure Cuhalev — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:07:10 -0000

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

Re: Losing a Facebook/Orkut/Linkedin friend

Jure Cuhalev — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:06:30 -0000

Thanks jype. Fixed.

Re: Losing a Facebook/Orkut/Linkedin friend

jype — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:53:17 -0000

Losing a friend.

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

Re: Losing a Facebook/Orkut/Linkedin friend

Dusan Smolnikar — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:17:52 -0000

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?