Most social media sites have tools that let you check who is currently friending or following you, but none of them will let you know if someone requested to unfriend you. While most people rarely care, there are scenarios when you genuinely want to know.
Facebook doesn’t provide an avenue or tool for you to discover who unfriended on the social media platform. However, some features they’re offering make it easy to do this without having to keep tabs on each of your friends individually.
In this article, you’ll learn how to find out who unfriended you on Facebook. While the process is not straightforward, it works, and it’s a great way to find out who is no longer your friend to reciprocate with the same energy.
How to Find Out Who Unfriended You On Facebook
There are multiple ways to find out who has unfriended you on the social media platform. The steps required to get this information might be pretty easy or somewhat difficult, depending on the specific information you’re planning to extract from the process.
For example, if you’re trying to discover if a single person unfriended you on Facebook, the process will be a lot simpler than getting a list of everyone who unfriended you over a specific time frame. With that said, you should always be optimistic about the availability of a way to achieve your goals.
Without further ado, here are some of the ways to find out who has unfriended you on the giant social media platform.
- Searching for your Facebook friend’s list
If you’re trying to discover if a specific person is still friends with you, try finding them on your friends’ list on the Facebook app. People who aren’t friends with you can’t show up on your friends’ list, giving you a quick way to determine who is, and who isn’t, your friend anymore.
Here are the steps required to search for a specific friend on your friends list to determine if they’re still friends with you.
- Launch the Facebook app on your smartphone or open the Facebook web address on your favorite desktop browser.
- Login to your account if you’re not already logged in. It’s crucial to ensure that you’re logged in to your account and not someone else’s account, as they personalize Facebook accounts for each user. Unless the person in question is a mutual friend of yours and whose account is on the device, you’ll certainly not find them on the list.
- Find and select More from the top row options and select Friends. This should bring up a list of your friends and a search box to help you find your friends more easily.
- Start typing the Facebook name of the person in question into the search bar provided to see if their name shows up while you type. If it does, congratulations, they’re still very much friends with you.
However, if you can’t find their name, they’ve most likely taken their time to unfriend you. It’s important to evaluate if you were ever friends in the first place as most people don’t take the pains to unfriend others on Facebook anymore.
- Using Facebook Timeline
Around a decade ago, Facebook introduced the Facebook Timeline, a feature that would replace the old Facebook profile. The first implementation of Facebook Timeline came with a huge flaw that lets you determine who has unfriended you on Facebook over a specified period.
While this feature doesn’t exist anymore, it’s still worth talking about, as it was a pretty interesting way to find out who stopped being your friend. Facebook might want to consider bringing it back, as most Facebook users would vote against the inability to discover people who unfriended you.
When the feature was still out in the wild, you could check who has unfriended you on Facebook by following the steps below.
- Get the Facebook Timeline feature that was in beta when this flaw was discovered. Then, you could get it by signing up for the waitlist, or if you want it sooner, signing up for the developer beta.
- Choose the previous year in your Friends tab on Facebook Timeline to bring up the number of friends you connected with within that year. This should bring up a “Made x New Friends,” with x representing the number of people who became friends with you over the year.
- Now, scroll through the list of the friends you made and you’ll discover that some of them have the “Add Friend” button. If you can add a friend on Facebook, that means they’ve most probably unfriended you.
This method was one of the most reliable ways to check who has unfriended you on Facebook before Facebook shelved it, claiming they released it in error. Here we are in 2022, wishing a similar feature could make its way back to Facebook again.
- Using external tools
Many external tools and apps claim to help you determine who has unfollowed or unfriended you on Facebook, but we do not recommend any of them. Most of these tools either do not work or have crazy limitations that make them almost unusable for the average person.
For example, some of these apps can only detect friends that unfriend you after you installed the app. While this sounds like a manageable flaw, why would you link your Facebook account to such a tool if you don’t have the intention of discovering a list of people who have unfriended you?
Also, exercise restraint by logging into an external app with your Facebook account. Since these apps promise something that most users want, they’ve proven to be a great avenue for phishing, and it’s up to you to not fall victim.
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Conclusion
Finding out who has unfriended you is one of the forbidden acts in the Facebook bible. While they rolled out a feature that lets you discover who unfriended you back in 2011, they quickly removed the feature after understanding what they had done.
In this article, I’ve shown you some alternative ways to determine who stopped being your friend on Facebook. Before canceling someone, however, it’s important to determine if you were ever friends or if you just thought you were friends.