The 5 Types of People You’re Likely to Unfriend on Facebook

A new study from a University of Colorado Denver grad student attempts to uncover what types of people we are most likely to unfriend. For the study, entitled “Unfriending on Facebook: Context Collapse and Unfriending Behaviors,” 1,077 users on Twitter were polled by CU Denver Business School doctoral candidate Christopher Sibona. Based on how they answered the survey, these are the top 5 types of people respondents reported unfriending:High-school friendOtherFriend of a friendWork friendCommon-interest friendNearly one fifth of respondents reported having unfriended someone from high school, perhaps proving once and for all that you may have moved on from that time of your life for good reason.“Facebook users can become friends with members from a variety of contexts and all of these friends are grouped together on a single general-purpose site,” Sibona writes in the study’s introduction. And while Facebook does provide tools for sorting friends into different classifications and lists, not everyone is using these tools.A second study by the author assesses the emotional response felt by people upon learning they had been unfriended. According to “Facebook Fallout: The Emotional Response to Being Unfriended on Facebook,” respondents were most likely to feel surprised, followed by bothered, amused and then lastly sad.Both studies were presented in January at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences and published by the conference.The unfriend can be a cold but necessary way of cutting someone out of your digital life. Have you ever unfriended someone on Facebook? Take our poll below, then let us know what drove you to it in the comments.(blogs.wsj.com)BakuDaily.Az