Breakup is a new Facebook application that tells you when you've been removed as a friend. Big thumbs down, I'm afraid. Part of the appeal of Facebook as a social network is that you don't have to tell people that you've ignored, unfriended or blocked them. It's one of the privacy guarantees that Facebook makes to their users. Applications shouldn't have the ability to over-ride this basic guarantee. The Facebook terms of service should be changed to prevent this from happening.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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I did not know that defriending is stealthy. So it is possible for you to be my friend and me not yours? Will I not know that this is the case when I try to visit your wall or anything like that? How does it really work? I want to test it. Can you please unfriend me and let me know. Thanks.
You're unfriended now Aswath. Let me know what you find out!