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You can unfriend them, block them, snooze them (so you won’t see anything from them for 30 days), or simply hide one of their entries. Here’s a rundown of how to accomplish each. Note ...
151; -- Happy National Unfriend Day! What started as a silly holiday by Jimmy Kimmel a few years ago has turned into an annual occurrence every November 17, when participating Facebook users take ...
National Unfriend Day is celebrated yearly on November 17th after being launched in 2010 by comedian Jimmy Kimmel. The holiday was meant to be a clever way to encourage people to clean up their ...
If, on top of falling for satirical pieces they also post comments on your posts that are just as ignorant and shortsighted, take it as a sign to unfriend. Is this person someone you’d gladly ...
Question: I know that when you "unfriend" someone on Facebook, they're not notified. But I've seen that some people I've unfriended are then being suggested to me as new friends. If that's the ...
It’s about time you did it. Yes, unfollow that annoying fourth cousin twice removed. Unfriend that girl you ran into the hallway one time in the seventh grade. It’s “National Facebook ...
But unfriend won out over those and others because "it has both currency and potential longevity," says the dictionary's senior lexicographer, Christine Lindberg. It seems as if "currency and ...
Student hits Facebook limit of 5,000 friends, doesn't plan to unfriend. NOV. 17, 2010— -- "All for un and un for all." So said comedian Jimmy Kimmel, promoting today's "National Unfriend Day." ...
One option is to unfriend people who share material that conflicts with our values. But a siloed environment where people self-select into echo chambers could also be worrisome. As a researcher ...
A short item in The Times Literary Supplement caught my eye last week, printed on the back page of the periodical: Oxford University Press has chosen "unfriend" as the Oxford Word of the Year ...
Unfriend is different, because most ‘un-‘ prefix words are typically adjectives, while unfriend takes on a verb form, according to Lindberg. There are examples of other ‘un-‘ verbs ...