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It's okay to move on. Here's the easy way to do it
What to Know
How to Unfriend Someone on Facebook
Can People Tell They've Been Unfriended?
How Do I Reverse an Unfriending on Facebook?
Is Unfriending the Same as Blocking and Unfollowing?
What Is a Facebook Purge?

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It's okay to move on. Here's the easy way to do it

Updated on November 5, 2021

What to Know

Go to the profile page of the person you want to unfriend. Select the Friends icon at the top of their profile, then select Unfriend.
The person you unfriended no longer sees posts you publish but you can still receive direct messages from them.
Facebook users aren't notified when you unfriend them.

This article explains how to unfriend someone on Facebook. It also explains what happens after your social media friendship is over.

How to Unfriend Someone on Facebook

Unfriending someone on Facebook is a fast and straightforward solution that's a bit stronger than unfollowing them, yet not as dramatic as blocking someone completely.

When you unfriend someone on Facebook, that person won't see posts that you publish to your friends, and any direct messages are filtered into your Message Requests inbox for you to approve before reading.

Unfriended Facebook friends can still view your public posts and follow you if you enabled the option on your profile.

Go to Facebook or open the app and log in, if necessary.
Go to your profile and select Friends.
Choose the name of the person you want to unfriend to open their profile page.
Select the Friends icon at the top of their profile.
Select Unfriend.

Can People Tell They've Been Unfriended?

Facebook users aren't notified when someone unfriends them. However, there are indirect ways in which they are likely to discover what's happened.

They might realize that they haven't seen any of your posts in their Facebook feed and visit your profile. They can tell you unfriended them when they see the option to add you as a friend.
If you have mutual friends, Facebook might recommend you as a suggested friend.

How Do I Reverse an Unfriending on Facebook?

It is impossible to undo an unfriending. The only way to reconnect with someone on Facebook is to send them a friend request as you did when you first became Facebook friends.

Because they must approve your friend request manually, they will realize that you unfriended them. If you unfriended them by accident, explain what happened.

Is Unfriending the Same as Blocking and Unfollowing?

Unfriending someone on Facebook isn't the same as blocking or unfollowing them. Unfollowing someone on Facebook maintains the friend connection but hides their posts from your Facebook feed. Unfollowing can be a good option for friends or family members that you can't cut off entirely yet don't want to see the content they post in your timeline. People you unfollow can still send you messages and see your posts.

Blocking someone on Facebook is the most-extreme action you can take as it not only unfriends an account but also prevents them from seeing your public posts and stops them from sending you any form of direct message.

What Is a Facebook Purge?

A Facebook purge is what many users humorously call it when they go through their list of Facebook friends and unfriend those that they no longer talk to, don't get along with, or don't recognize.

After the mass unfriending, the user often posts something to their remaining Facebook friends to let them know that a purge took place and that if they can read that message, it means that they have survived and are still considered a true friend.

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There's tons of websites, Pages, and Groups on Facebook claiming they will show you who unfriends you, but they're just trying to scam you. Unfriend Finder is, however, the real deal (until Facebook shuts it down, of course). It is available in 65 languages and works with Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Opera. You can grab the plugin from UserScripts. To see how to install it for Chrome, how to install it for Firefox, and what it offers, check out the following Photo Galleries:

How to see who unfriends you on Facebook (screenshots)
How to install/uninstall Unfriend Finder for Facebook (Google Chrome)
How to install/uninstall Unfriend Finder for Facebook (Mozilla Firefox)

If someone accepts a friend request from you, Facebook sends you a notification, both on the social network and via e-mail (the latter you can disable). If one of your friends deletes (or unfriends) you, Facebook does not notify you. The company says so explicitly in a Facebook Help Center entry:

If I unfriend someone, will they be notified? No, but all friend links are reciprocal, so you will be removed as a friend from their friend list as well.

Facebook does this so users don't feel guilty when they unfriend someone. Unfortunately, some users just can't help themselves and are unbearably curious who is unfriending them, and when.

That's where hacker Edouard Gatouillat comes in. He has developed a browser plugin called Unfriend Finder that shows you who has unfriended you on Facebook. Unfriend Finder won't show you who has unfriended you in the past, but it will work for anyone who unfriends you going forward. It checks who has gone missing by constantly monitoring your Facebook friends list.

Here's the plugin's official description:

Unfriend Finder is a realtime script that allows you to know wich one of your friends removed you on facebook. A locale database keeps record of your friendlist, and is compared at each refresh. Unfriends are people who were previously your friend but have either deactivated their account or have removed you from their friendlist. Unfriend Finder will tell you which friends have removed you, who has deactivated their accounts, people you have requested friendship with and who has declined your friend request. Unfriend Finder makes identifying unfriends easy by displaying a red counter in the menubar with the amount of unfriends you have. It also uses Facebook notification to alert you on these events.
Please note: This script can not tell you which profile(s) had you on their friendlist before it was installed. Unfriend Finder is not retroactive.

If this plugin stops working for you, please let me know.

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