Tomorrow is national Facebook "unfriending" day...or so I read somewhere.

For the first time since opening my facebook account I actually did unfriend someone last week. It felt weird. It wasn't someone I know well, we went to the same high school, and met actually at a class reunion some years ago. I hadn't seen her in person for about five years. She only "friended" me about a month ago, and I was bombarded with such negative politically skewed, hateful postings, I felt I couldn't take it anymore. I won't even say which side she was on, it doesn't matter. I know my friends all have different points of view, and I respect that, as I hope they respect my point of view.

These postings went beyond just point of view, it was racial, hateful and insulting to say the least. Who needs that??

But I was wondering how you know if someone unfriends you? Do they get a notification or what? Are there other reasons you have unfriended someone in the past?

To me it all seems so... superficial. And yet, sometimes the best way to keep in touch with far flung friends and relatives you don't see often.