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Honey, Can You Please Pass the Politics?

Eric Yaverbaum | Posted 04.16.2012

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Eric Yaverbaum

A recent poll by social media analytics company NM Incite suggests that 14% of Facebook users who unfriend someone do so because they've been offended by political comments that were posted on the site. What does this say about free speech?

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WATCH: It's National UnFriend Day Charlie Brown!

Posted 11.16.2011

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Jimmy Kimmel made headlines last year when he declared November 17 to be National UnFriend Day, a day when Facebook users the world over should cleans...

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Cops: Facebook Unfriending Drives Woman To Arson

Posted 01.03.2012

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Authorities in Iowa say a 30-year-old woman attempted to burn down a couple's house last week in retaliation for being unfriended on Facebook. Jenn...

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Is Your Ex Secretly Sabotaging Your Love Life?

Andrea Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrea Miller

Quick! A relationship pop quiz...

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Its Time to Unfriend That "Impulse Addition" Friend

Gil Laroya | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gil Laroya

Its time to rethink how we define what a "friend" is online, and move forward with a better understanding of how we decide when to send a friend request to a virtual stranger.

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My one-sided friendship: How can I get her to stop IM-ing me?

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Irene S. Levine

QUESTION Hi Irene, I'm in an awkward situation with a friend and I'm at a loss about how to proceed. We've been friends for about 6 years. We met ...

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Top 3 Ways to Get Unfriended on Facebook

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Irene S. Levine

In what claims to be the first study of its kind, Christopher Sibona, a doctoral student in the Computer Science and Information Systems program at th...

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I can't believe she defriended me!

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Irene S. Levine

This week, I received an email from another writer who reminded me that she had once defriended me on Facebook. We both belong to the same professiona...

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How to Handle A Facebook Frenemy

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Irene S. Levine

QUESTION Dear Irene, After years of friendship, my relationship with a colleague was damaged while both of us were enduring major losses in our l...

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'Unfriend' Is Oxford Dictionary's 'Word Of The Year'

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — What word sums up 2009? How about unfriend? That's the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year. It means to remove so...

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Defriended: The Politics Of Social Networking

Giulia Rozzi | Posted 11.17.2011

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Giulia Rozzi

Last week my procrastination led me to conduct a classmate search on Facebook in which I noticed that a girl who had been my friend now had an "add as a friend" rectangle next to her face. "Add as a friend?"

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Simulating Reality In The Facebook Era: If You Unfriend Someone, Do They Still Exist?

Marika Holmgren | Posted 11.17.2011

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Marika Holmgren

I recently had a friend, with whom I've had an increasingly difficult relationship over the years, "unfriend" me. The "friending" and "unfriending" of people happens probably thousands of times a minute.

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