“X and Y are now friends on Facebook” - That’s the message displayed in your Facebook profile each time you add a new friend on Facebook or someone else confirms your pending request.
But the reverse is not true - you will never know when existing friends remove you from their Facebook friends list. The count of your friends will decrease but Facebook won’t reveal the name of the person who just unfriended you.
You can however play detective using a Facebook app called Unfriender - this will let you know when friends quietly remove as a connection on Facebook. They are extending the alerts to email and SMS as well.
The only downside is that Unfriender works only with friends that you have added after installing the Facebook application. Thanks Josh.
Related: Facebook Collage, Facebook Phone Book
Find this article at:
http://www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/track-facebook-friends-who-delete-or-remove-you/2060/
web: http://www.labnol.org/
email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
A really awsome trick. As I have been using facebook and making alot of friends and ended up losing them in a mist. This really helps.
Written by Shaffir on 01.08.08
Thanks Amit, this is fun.
Written by Robin on 01.08.08
It will be good to know the same thing with Yahoo/MSN messengers and Gtalk as well..
Written by teejay on 01.09.08
Anything similar for Orkut !? :)
Written by Vivek on 01.14.08
This will prove most useful in determining who my real friends are
Written by uncle freekers on 01.15.08
I’ve been adding people that don’t really do anything. Even after many e-mails and icebreakers
They kind of are a dead weight. So this is a good tool. I guess its hit or miss with facebook
Written by Sally on 02.29.08
Has facebook removed this application? The link is dead.
Written by Alex on 04.25.08