Why hasn’t Zuckerberg tried to establish an “Annual Refriending and Refollowing Day” or something like that for around New Year’s. This would increase Facebook activity greatly and in my opinion not the worst thing in the world that could happen. Could be applied to more social media than FB too.
If people who’d unfriended me, or who’d I’d have unfriended, for whatever reason, refriended me en masse on Jan 1st it would annoy the heck out of me.
It’s entirely possible there exists a large bunch of people with thin skins and short memories out there that facebook would benefit from reconnecting, but anyone I’ve unfriended I’ve ditched because their importance/annoyance-ratio proved too low over time.
Ok good points.
I should add for future posts that this thread is mainly for the “Un-follow” aspect. People Un-follow those who have annoyed them once, and then never remember to give them another try when they are a slightly or heavily different person.
The “Un-friend” side is mainly something FB would likely add-on to such a campaign.
I would have sworn that just happened on my account. All the people I’d quit following - mostly for their political BS but some for excessive glurge - have reappeared in my feed and I’ve had to unfollow them all again. So my feed has been full of annoying crap again.
Fortunately, the unfriended haven’t returned.
It seems to me the risk is that the public might interpret the day as “spring cleaning day” and decide to unfriend en masse, rather than refriend.
Or worse yet, it could become kind of like New Years resolution day: “A day to stop and reconsider whether you really want to be wasting so much time on FB every hour of every day?”
That risk, whoever small, makes the idea a total non-starter for Biggee Z.
Here’s a better idea. An annual unfriending day, on which you go through your friends list and clear out the dead brush.
Not on FB but on another messenger service, I have my annual “Block Party” where I delete online friends who haven’t kept in touch in the past year. 
Really the only people I’ve unfriended on FB were such a-holes I probably never wanted to be friends in the first place. Or they are such remote acquaintances I barely remember who they are.