Facebook Timeline Lets You See Which Friends Have Unfriended You (PICTURES)

For many, being "unfriended" is a fate worse than death.

But it's not something you'd know about right away.

In previous versions of Facebook, there was no easy way to see which of your "friends" had decided to sever your relationship on the social network. Sure, you could always go to their profile to check, but that required the effort of remembering who they were.

While "old Facebook" made the online friendship breakup a bit less-in-your-face, the new Facebook Timeline makes it way easier to see who's decided to ax your online friendship.

If you've already enabled your new profile, you can check it out right now.

Here's how you can see who's unfriended you:

First, pick a year from your timeline (any year since you joined will do).

Then, find the "Friends" box for that year. This will tell you how many people you added in this year.

Click on the link that reads something like "Made ___ New Friends." That link will bring up a new box, showing all the people you were friends with. If an "Add Friend" button appears next to their name, then you are no longer friends.

You can go through each year to see which friends you've made, and who you've lost.

Granted this goes both ways. The "Add Friend" button will appear next to the people you've unfriended, not just the people who have unfriended you. It doesn't show who ended the relationship.

This feature, however, lies at the core of the new Facebook changes, providing insight into how a person's life and online relationship change over time. As Mark Zuckerberg said at the f8 keynote, the new profile is really going to give people a chance to put their whole history online.

Whether users regard this as a privacy breach remains to be seen, but it must be noted that these "unfriendings" are only easily available to users looking at their own profiles. If someone else is looking at your "Friends" box from a certain year, they can see that you were friends once, but not the current status of the relationship.

Hat Tip to Buzzfeed for the find.

For a tour of Facebook's new Timeline, check out the slideshow (below).

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Comments

[JohnyTL]

01:26 AM on 09/27/2011

I'm glad I got rid of my facebook...and the fake one.

[hhl482]

08:11 PM on 09/26/2011

Facebook: a pet rock you can't even bash anyone's brains out with. A negative contribution, for which pencil neck should be charged, not payed.

[Jay from Ottawa]

05:51 PM on 09/26/2011

Every six months I do a FB spring cleaning where I usually unfriend more people than I friend.

Mature individuals don't care for numbers, only quality.

[TheOuroborus]

06:00 PM on 09/26/2011

Exactly.

[wonmean]

08:41 PM on 09/26/2011

Upvote.

[knappm70]

04:23 PM on 09/26/2011

I have "Unfriended" all of my progressive liberal friends.

[tssent]

04:26 PM on 09/26/2011

Probably because they "unfriended" you first.

[wonmean]

08:37 PM on 09/26/2011

Progressive =/= liberal, silly.

I guess there is a small subset that are truly progressive and liberal, though.

[Alki Gifting]

03:53 PM on 09/26/2011

Ok, seriously, I have about 40 plus friends on facebook.
Some of those 40+ are mere aquaintances since most of my friends and none of my family are on it.
I haven't unfriended anyone, but it sure would be fun to see if anyone unfriended me.

I have decidedly not accepted friendship from people I do not like in real life.
It doesn't matter to me what they think, but I'm not calling anyone a friend that I don't care for at all, and I'm not accepting the friendship to save face.

I'm not into the adding a million friends to my account because I can catch up with my friends and family the old fashioned way.
It's quite amusing to see how some people use facebook. Why would anyone categorize who are their friends, family, co workers etc is beyond me.
I'm not telling anyone where i live nor where I work, and who are closest to me, but hey if you want to, go right ahead.
I like to look at the profiles of the people I know sometimes.

[karen lyons kalmenson]

03:25 PM on 09/26/2011

the nasties out there who use zuckerbook as a means to relive or live their high school meangirl cravings will now be making a collective gulp;-D

[KVgianakos]

03:25 PM on 09/26/2011

Fakebook is a total pile of BS. People who spend their every waking hour on this crap are pathetic. Right now US schoolchilren rank 25th worldwide in math scores and 17th in science scores. With fakebook these numbers will certainly get worse.

[tssent]

04:29 PM on 09/26/2011

Good for you and proud to fan you for your outspokenness on this.
One more addiction our society doesn't need -- garbage in and
garbage out, hour after hour after hour.

Facebook people are more interested in a breaking story about
Britney Spear's poodle being rushed to the vet with what is almost
surely irreversible flu than with a new breakthrough in cancer or
the discovery of a new planet.  It's abhorrent and disgusting.  It's
one more of the addictions that has society's mind by the throat.

[Hickspy]

10:58 AM on 09/26/2011

Lol.

I can hear socially awkward people starting to sweat.

[Adonijah]

10:55 AM on 09/26/2011

LOL @ For many, being "unfriended" is a fate worse than death.

[Yolanda Villarreal]

04:55 PM on 09/25/2011

This list will be a far more extensive one than the friends list.

[roseybaby63]

04:31 PM on 09/25/2011

I only friend some family members and people that I know in person. I don't friend a bunch of cyber people. I don't see the point of having 1,000 "friends". People should be more particular about who they friend. Have a little discrimination people.

[playitloud25]

04:15 PM on 09/25/2011

This new Facebook is starting to sound a little creepy. I liked that I could just have a profile and connect with people. This change will be the death of Facebook, and I'll probably move on to something like Google + when enough people do to make it worth my time.

[Mouse718]

02:29 PM on 09/25/2011

I "un-friended" Facebook about a year ago, and I'm very happy I did.

[CoRavensFan]

12:20 PM on 09/26/2011

I "unfriended" Facebook about 8 months ago and I'm really glad I did too! After about 2 weeks of "detoxing" from Facebook use, I have been Facebook clean and sober ever since.

[tssent]

04:30 PM on 09/26/2011

I un-friended Facebook the first time I heard such a silly name.

[Kelly8]

02:20 PM on 09/25/2011

Actually - they already fixed this problem. Media can't keep up with technology...you won't be able to see who unfriended you.

But I personally love un-friending - it's the new emotional cleanse. I feel like a big girl now.

[karen lyons kalmenson]

03:26 PM on 09/26/2011

what a shame...this would have been a fun feature;-D

[tssent]

04:33 PM on 09/26/2011

Anyone who would become truly concerned over who un-friended them
is someone who should have known better than to throw away so much
valuable time on something as silly as Facebook in the first place.

"Life is a banquet," someone one said, "and most poor sobs are
starving."

[Kelly8]

05:17 PM on 09/26/2011

Well, I share great photography of my young son enjoying boyhood, fabulous vacations shots to our National Parks, images of our life as a young family, flowers I have grown with pride, family reunion moments for those who could not attend, and some amazing photos of the superb homegrown meals I make for my family straight from my garden. I am a visual creature who loves to share some wonderful moments and beautiful images with a limited number of friends and family who are spread all over the globe. It's how I stay connected in a largely disconnected world.

Facebook is what you make of it, as is your time and the content of your posts on here, which leave me uninspired.

"If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony."

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

[RTF372]

02:18 PM on 09/25/2011

This feature is so shallow and adolescent. After I use it, find out who deleted me, and exact appropriate retaliation on every last one of them, I'm never going to look at it again. It's so immature.