OMG, We're Not BFFs Anymore? Getting 'Unfriended' Online Stings
Users of Social-Networking Sites Delete Friends Who Don't Keep in Touch, Misbehave

By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO

JoAna Swan recently purged her profile on social-networking site Facebook Inc. of friends she hadn't spoken to for a while. A week later, Ms. Swan, a 21-year-old student at Pace University in Manhattan, ran into a woman she had dropped.

Crammed next to Ms. Swan in an elevator on the way to class, the woman, an acquaintance from freshman year, called her out for "unfriending" her and asked what she had done to deserve it. Ms. Swan considered saying it was an accident, but then opted to be honest. "It's nothing personal," she recalls saying. "I just delete people I no longer talk to." [Read More!]