Facebook Updates Timeline to Avoid Outing Unfrienders

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Sarah Kessler
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Facebook Updates Timeline to Avoid Outing Unfrienders
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Last week, the list of friends a user made during a given year included friends who had subsequently been unfriended. They were identifiable to the user by a box saying "Add Friend."

It looked like this:

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Now, the people who are no longer friends have simply been removed from that list.

So you can go ahead and unfriend that acquaintance from high school (or was it middle school?) without the fear of being called out later.

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