Defriend Day Etiquette: Why It's OK To Unfriend On Facebook (POLL)

If you haven't heard, it's Defriend Day today, March 4, 2011, at least according to author Mark Dice.

Dice, who has espoused conspiracy theories including one alleging that the 9/11 attacks were an "inside job," posted an article on InfoWars and an accompanying video (scroll down to view it) outlining reasons you should consider going on a de-friending spree today. He says it's totally OK to defriend and here are some of the reasons why:

• They may be "an acquaintance [you're never] ever going to see in real life ever again"
• They could be stalking you
• They could be screwing you over

It just isn't worth having more friends than others by accepting people at random, because you have mutual friends or because you met them once at a party, Dice explains. "You open up your world to them," he said.

Not content with Dice's explanation? Make sure to check out these seven reasons you may defriend someone on Facebook. And if you're a gamer, you may want to read this post, which looks at whether the defriending should also apply to your gaming friends.

To defriend someone, you have to scroll down to "unfriend" on that person's Facebook page. Watch the full video about Defriend Day below and don't forget to take our poll.

WATCH:

Quick Poll

Will you participate in Defriend Day?

Already did! Cleaned out non-friends.

OK, I'm convinced. Going to do it now.

Eh, maybe a bit later.

No way, my friends are my friends.

Share your vote on Facebook so your friends can take this poll

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[diehard2]

02:35 PM on 03/08/2011

Nooo! You can't "defriend"! It's against the Creed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akb5NyZaA9c

[loveistheanswer4you]

10:38 AM on 03/09/2011

wow....just wow.

[JC80]

02:11 PM on 03/08/2011

If everyone's friends list got rebooted at the same time, all of our friends lists would be considerably smaller. http://bit.ly/g2iIyO

[edvince]

12:21 PM on 03/08/2011

I agree with Huff's post the other day: Facebook and Google have been America's fast food.

[TRCS]

04:11 PM on 03/08/2011

Then what is fast food?

[Queen4ever]

11:28 AM on 03/08/2011

OK, I don’t know who Mark Dice is or if I agree with everything he says but I have been thinking about defriending people on Facebook. I have these “friends” who never talk to me or reach out to me, even when I reach out to them. I am totally sick of it. The only thing I worry about is what if they are totally busy and want to contact me and when they find the time I have already defriended them? How long is long enough to defriend someone?

[YrthWyndAndFyre]

10:45 PM on 03/07/2011

There's a 'Facebook'? What, some kind of on-line narcissism web-site?

As George Carlin once said, "If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it from you." It gets more true every day. I wonder if there's anything that people *won't* gobble up like it was candy? What's next on the Fad Menu?

"I have this bridge for sale. It's in Brooklyn. Maybe you've heard of it. Its limited quantities, 20 only, first come first served, so get your Brooklyn Bridge now! Before they're all gone! Be the first in your city to own this priceless landmark!"

Sad thing is, it would probably fly. Assuming it hasn't already done so.

[Theda]

12:37 PM on 03/08/2011

If you didn't know what Facebook was, you wouldn't be here making sarcastic comments!

[YrthWyndAndFyre]

07:56 PM on 03/14/2011

I know what Facebook is. I've avoided it like the plague. For reasons I consider obvious.

Go to your facebook page. Go to your friends list. Count how many you have that you have never actually been in physical contact with in the past year (hug, kiss, shook hands, pat on the back, friendly punch in the shoulder, whatever). Do you have one? More? Need I say more? You're upset precisely because that 'thing' out there is your defining self. You're a web-page. Congratulations, you managed to codify yourself into a primitive form of XML, so not quite a document, not quite a program, but less than either.

[jujubees]

07:50 PM on 03/07/2011

People still use Farcebook?

[miamorphos]

03:55 PM on 03/06/2011

I wonder if anyone has any views on whether it's appropriate to link to Infowars without at least an acknowledgment that Infowars is an extremist site with ties to white supremacist and violent anti-gay activism?

[facepalm12]

11:49 AM on 03/07/2011

Haha, thats a blatantly false statement. Where is the evidence of these ties?

[miamorphos]

06:28 PM on 03/07/2011

The moderator of this discussion will not permit any discussion of Alex Jones, apparently -- I guess we can't have this discussion here.

[Nick Patrick]

02:23 PM on 03/06/2011

I just launched my new Facebook app, Defriend Alert (http://www.defriendalert.com), that sends you an email whenever someone defriends you. Defend yourself against Defriend Day!

[ArnoldHorshack]

09:00 PM on 03/07/2011

What? Are you that insecure that you need to defend yourself? Try being a better friend. Communicate!

[novabird]

12:01 AM on 03/06/2011

I no longer trust Facebook. They have lied to the public too many times about privacy issues.

[ArnoldHorshack]

09:00 PM on 03/07/2011

word

[General Public]

07:45 PM on 03/05/2011

Eh, I never actually go on Facebook anymore anyway, so why would I want to bother with this? Also, I've carefully cultivated over 3000 friends on Facebook by friending lots of people (for instance, everyone with the same last name as me, everyone named Bob Dobbs or Connie Dobbs, everyone from my high school, everyone at my employer, everyone in the Church of the SubGenius, etc.) and I don't want to lose the majority of them who I don't even know in person. I also have plenty of friends on this site too, but not at all as much, and I don't see any point in deleting them either. I'm a friendly person in real life and I don't see why not act the same way online. Of course I don't bother with Facebook anymore... I still have the account there and all the friends, but I got bored with it so I just accept incoming friend requests and that's about it, otherwise I don't use Facebook since it's gotten so boring. I used to play the games on Facebook but it was a huge waste of time so I quit it and blocked all the games I got requests in. I was pretty good at the games, too, but then I realized that just showed I wasted too much time on it. I decided it would be a better use of my spare time to play much more awesome games that cost money that were pirated software.

[ArnoldHorshack]

09:01 PM on 03/07/2011

omg... you seem narcissistic

[Nagarjuna]

07:23 PM on 03/05/2011

I have only defriended people that have spoken admiringly of Sarah Palin or Ayn Rand. They're GONE. Everybody else is welcome.

[tooncesrocks]

12:48 AM on 03/06/2011

ayn rand wasn't right on everything... but to say she wasn't right on a lot is to say that you never read her

[Nagarjuna]

01:50 PM on 03/06/2011

BTW, Thank you for not attempting to defend Palin!

[Nagarjuna]

08:08 PM on 03/06/2011

I answered you at length, but it didn't get through. I have read almost everything Rand ever wrote; that is why I hold her in contempt.

[HandsOffMyMedicaid]

06:15 AM on 03/07/2011

Wow, you are so enlightened!

[Nagarjuna]

05:14 PM on 03/07/2011

Jeez, people are so sarcastic around here today.

[loki]

06:42 PM on 03/05/2011

why not just De=Facebook . Close out your account and pray that they dont keep selling your info to the vultures like they do now or your Identity gets stolen.

[geohump]

03:21 PM on 03/07/2011

IF you are going to De-Facebook...

Please first change all your information in your profile, and etc... to be wildly wrong.

change your gender, add or subtract 50 years to your age, change your location, remove all your "likes" and add likes that you hate, etc..

Then, when they sell your information, it can't be used to target you.

In fact - Why not change all your information even if you're gong to keep using facebook! ;-)

[ArnoldHorshack]

09:02 PM on 03/07/2011

great idea. Thanks

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[miamorphos]

07:20 PM on 03/05/2011

That someone from Infowars would be preaching fear about online socializing? Yes, that is Orwellian.