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

Marika Holmgren | Posted 11.17.2011

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.

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

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

Defriended: The Politics Of Social Networking

Giulia Rozzi | Posted 11.17.2011

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?"