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Saturday, November 20, 2010

National Unfriend Day by Jimmy Kimmel



On a recent Jimmy Kimmell, he made a call to the world to promote November 17, 2010 National UnFriend Day [NUD] as a new holiday he hopes will inspire Facebook users to unfriend the social networking contacts that aren't real friends.
Facebook was once the social networking site we chose over MySpace to connect with our real friends; but over the years, many of us have accumulated dozens, if not hundreds, of Facebook friends that are, in fact, not actually our friends.
Kimmel believes there are 5 reasons:
Some of the "unfriending" logic being preached on the internet today?

1. They're your mom

2. You don't actually know them

3. You've hidden them on your newsfeed because their status updates are too annoying

4. They send you invite after invite after invite to everything from quizzes and games to lame charity cause parties

5. You were friends in high school ... and haven't spoken since

Maybe Jimmy Kimmel is getting to a point of how out of control friending is on SNS sites. The promotion of facebook being an aspect to a national holiday is interesting because its showing how far facebook has come in the past few years.

1 comment:

  1. This would be insane and I wonder how many people actually went through with it last week. Of course that would mean that November 18th would be national "Why did you unfriend me" day where everyone you unfriended sends you a message. You gotta love social networking.

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