Okay, so you have to admit the urge to beef up your friend count was quite tempting when you first signed up for Facebook. Next thing you know your list is over 100 and edging up to 200 when you realize, hey, I probably only have about 30 real friends and of those I probably only regularly see about 10 of them. So you investigate your list and quickly notice that you don't really know most of these people or you haven't seen them in over a decade or longer. You want to remove them but you're worried about offending anyone.
The recent Burger King campaign Whopper Sacrifice
to 'defriend' 10 people on Facebook for a free burger raises some
interesting issues on social media etiquette. The promotion was
successful and boasts having ended 234,000 friends on the popular
social network before it ended it's campaign. So is defriending the new trend in 2009. If it is then widgets like Twitter Grader and Facebook Grader will be a good tool to help you decide who stays and who goes!
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