# Is there a way to see who unfriended on Facebook? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 9, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-unfriended-on-facebook/997354 "2024-02-09T13:21:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-unfriended-on-facebook/997354/1 "2024-02-09T13:21:32Z")
Well, any way to see if any friends have unfollowed you? I cant find any obvious way to do that in the Facebook options, but maybe im not looking hard enough? I have too many friends on facebook to compare and contrast who are and who are not, so… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-unfriended-on-facebook/997354/2 "2024-02-09T13:28:12Z")
There’s a browser extension called FB Purity that will, among other things, tell you when a friend is no longer a friend. I don’t think there’s a way to do a retroactive audit, though. ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-unfriended-on-facebook/997354/3 "2024-02-09T13:29:58Z")
Allright, so not implemented in facebook itself then ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-unfriended-on-facebook/997354/4 "2024-02-09T13:30:58Z")
Not that I’m aware of, though I’ve also never taken the time to hunt for a feature like that. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-unfriended-on-facebook/997354/5 "2024-02-09T13:57:30Z")
No, that has never been available in FB. The only way to track it is to take snapshots of your friends list and compare over time, which is essentially what plug-ins like FB Purity do. ---
**Author:** ![jjakucyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jjakucyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjakucyk)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-unfriended-on-facebook/997354/6 "2024-02-09T14:09:29Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > There’s a browser extension called FB Purity that will, among other things, tell you when a friend is no longer a friend. I don’t think there’s a way to do a retroactive audit, though. It will also tell you if someone changed their name. Every once in a while someone’s account gets hacked/stolen and all the information changed, pictures replaced, etc. So it’s entirely possible a friend of yours, John Smith, is now the fake spam account Kadim Al Shahir. As you said though, it can’t check retroactively. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-unfriended-on-facebook/997354/7 "2024-02-09T14:20:18Z")
> [@Loggins](#): > > any way to see if any friends have unfollowed you? You could always just ask Jimmy. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-unfriended-on-facebook/997354/8 "2024-02-09T14:45:08Z")
> [@Loggins](#): > > Allright, so not implemented in facebook itself then I think if you unfollow someone, on the confirmation screen F.B. specifically states the person will not be able to see that you performed this action. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-unfriended-on-facebook/997354/9 "2024-02-09T15:02:38Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > There’s a browser extension called FB Purity that will, among other things, tell you when a friend is no longer a friend. I don’t think there’s a way to do a retroactive audit, though. If FB Purity is not available in the respective browser extension library, don’t go there. I use Firefox. It’s not in the official list of Firefox extensions. Use at your own risk. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-unfriended-on-facebook/997354/10 "2024-02-09T15:17:37Z")
If FB Purity were an unsafe browser extension, wouldn’t the online reviews reflect that? I’ve been using FB Purity for a couple of years (on Firefox). Facebook now shovels so much garbage into your feed – ads, “suggested” pages, and the like – and doesn’t allow you to opt out of it. FB Purity can filter all that out. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-unfriended-on-facebook/997354/11 "2024-02-09T15:24:04Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I think if you unfollow someone, on the confirmation screen F.B. specifically states the person will not be able to see that you performed this action. True, but it is a one way street. You no longer see them, but they still see you and the things you post because you are still friends. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-unfriended-on-facebook/997354/12 "2024-02-09T15:26:46Z")
Ah, I see what happened. The thread _title_ is about un_friending_ but the initial O.P. is about un_following_ which is a different, uh, relationship status. I conflated the two when I replied. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-unfriended-on-facebook/997354/13 "2024-02-09T15:44:08Z")
Yeah, I don’t even attempt to use Facebook on anything that doesn’t have it installed. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-unfriended-on-facebook/997354/14 "2024-02-09T16:14:10Z")
**Unfollowed** is invisible by design; it’s intended to be used when you want to stay friends with someone (and be able to communicate with them via the platform), but you don’t want to see whatever it is they keep posting on their wall. Obviously ‘I don’t want to keep seeing photos of your lunch’ isn’t a message you would want to say to them directly, thus unfollowing is invisible to the unfollowed person. It’s often the case that you will know if someone **Unfriended** you on facebook, because you start to see suggestions to add them as a friend (assuming you have mutual friends with the person). This also happens when someone abandons one account and sets up a new one in the same name, so it doesn’t always indicate that they deliberately unfriended you.