5 Ways to Get Defriended on Facebook

Facebook defriendings happen everyday in the land of Facebook social networking. Friends who no longer wish to be friends go beyond the Facebook block feature and commit an act of Facebook defriending, which provides a total removal of you from their Facebook friends list. A Facebook defriending essentially makes a person disappear from the former Facebook friend's page, and cuts off any personal information, status updates, ability to instant message, email, or communicate with the Facebook friend.

Facebook defriendings can happen for a number of reasons, and sometimes a sudden Facebook defriending can come as a shock. Others, who may have hundreds of Facebook friends, may not even notice the Facebook defriending, since no notice is sent. If you are looking to earn your first Facebook defriending, there are some common ways to have this event happen. Facebook friends who no longer want to be your Facebook friend, often defriend for one of the following five reasons.

1. Post Embarassing Information about Facebook Friends

One of the most embarassing ways to earn a defriending on Facebook is to post personal information or inside secrets about your Facebook friends. This can be done by posting embarassing information directly on the Facebook friend's wall, at which point it will be seen by their Facebook friend connections. Another way is to respond to their status updates with embarassing responses. No matter how it is done, posting embarassing or highly personal information about a Facebook friend is a near guaranteed ending to a Facebook friendship.

2. Bomb Your Facebook Friends with Dozens of Facebook Applications

Facebook offers hundreds of different Facebook applications you can send to your Facebook friends. There are no limits on the number of applications you can send daily, and some new Facebook friends fall into the chronic application bomber category. Sure, there are some fun and downright hilarious Facebook applications to send to Facebook friends, but abuse of sending more than a few a day can lead to blockings and defriendings on Facebook.

3. Post and Tag Old Photos of Facebook Friends

Photo posting can be a great way to share old memories with Facebook friends. Posting really embarassing or unattractive photos of Facebook friends, can however, lead to trouble. Nobody likes to see their worst photos posted all over Facebook, and tagging a Facebook friend in a photo on Facebook will not only post the picture, but send it to the Facebook friend's "photos" gallery on their home page.

4. Write Offensive Status Updates or Facebook Thread Responses

Most people on Facebook have a variety of Facebook friends, often including family members, relatives, co-workers, current friends, and old friends. This mix of Facebook friends often leads to dozens of different personalities all combined on your Facebook friends list. An offensive posting will reach all your Facebook friends, and what one friend considers appropriate may be the very same thing another considers too racy, strange, or uncalled for.

You can also earn defriendings by posting offensive, vulgar, or overly personal comments on Facebook friends' status updates or posts. Writing curse words, being overtly sexual in a response, or too personal on a thread where the Facebook friend's grandmother posted or a co-worker, may lead to a quiet defriending if it happens one too many times.

5. Get Involved in a Romantic Relationship on Facebook and then Break Up

The most certain way to get an instant defriending is to end an online or real life relationship badly with a Facebook friend. Many Facebook users meet new online friends through Facebook, and some of these friendships can lead to online romantic relationships. Others include their real life significant other as part of their Facebook friends list. When bad break ups or relationship issues arise on Facebook, one of the most common ways to cut off the former Facebook significant other is to defriend the person. This prevents the former Facebook friend from seeing anymore of your posts, personal online interactions, and general status posts.

If you want to be defriended on Facebook and just don't want to be the one to defriend, try one of the surefire ways to get defriended on Facebook. There's nothing like looking on your Facebook friends list one morning and realizing you lost one.