![]() “You haven’t talked to that person since the random class you took together, and you’ll probably never talk to them again.”īroken Heart? Image Credit: ‘Red Roses on a Piano’, Photo by lailajuliana, CC0 Public Domain, via pixabay. “You’re tired of seeing your newsfeed,” said Jonathan Evans, a contract specialist in Seattle. Along with some random people I met at parties in college.” “She’d recently gotten married, but I hadn’t even known she was engaged. ![]() “A few days ago, Facebook suggested I reconnect with a friend whose name I didn’t recognize,” said Jessica Kay, a lawyer in Kansas City. Farmville robots are increasingly becoming problems as well, but are not yet grounds for unfriending. These are the friends you never hear from except when they want you to join a cause, sign a petition, donate money, become a fan of a product, or otherwise promote something. That’s because your friends are robots, Jane. Clearly, they’re not interested in actually being friends.” ![]() “People send me Green Patches all the time,” said Jane Kim, a television research assistant in NYC. In honor of this announcement, I surveyed Facebook users across the country about why they would choose to unfriend someone. If you haven’t already heard, unfriend is the New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year.
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