How To Lose "Friends"
“The 100th post about your favorite band is no longer interesting.”
-Christopher Sibona, whose research into why people get unfriended on Facebook is to be published by the Hawaii International Conference on System Science, explains the top reasons for defrienestration: updating too frequently about boring things, posting about controversial subjects like politics or religion, and writing racist or sexist stuff. It’s a lot like life, although in life these people are actually friends and not some random body count you’ve assembled through networking or total availability.