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used to be you unloaded a friend by gradually not hanging with them they got the message after a while now BAM you unfriend him on Facebook in an instance they can't access your wall see your embarrassing pictures or read your inane posts you showed them I'm Brian Cooley with top five reasons people unfriend people on Facebook now this list is drawn largely from research done by University of Colorado Denver doctoral student chris simona who surveyed 1,500 Facebook users in 2010 to find out why they do the dirt of the 21st century saying goodbye on Facebook number 5 it's actually nothing you do on Facebook at all Cibona found that 57% of unfriending x' happen because of something which happened in the real world how quick number four I'm gonna toss out my own jump ball here I think it's because of Facebook pull back as we use Facebook more and more I hear from a lot of people who are using it less and less it's because they come to the intersection of the novelty wearing a bit thin and they realize how much about themselves they're exposing and in the process of taking that back they whittle down their friends list to well actual friends number 3 racist or vulgar posts this is kind of a no-brainer right we've all got those morons in our crowd who go there and then there you are with their mortifying utterances on your wall where all your enlightened friends can see you also hang out with losers number 2 posts about politics and religion social networks do not change one of the great truths of human relations that is lay off politics God and gun control if you want the party to stay polite before I get to our number one reason people unfriend people on Facebook note that unfriend is not hillbilly English it's a real word in fact it was word of the year in 2009 as named by the New Oxford American Dictionary which said it has both currency and tensile longevity and it's just a handy phrase okay the number one reason that people unfriend people on Facebook is persistent in nain posts no kidding farmville updates alone are enough to inspire genocide please people post something you think the rest of us at least might care about not another damn golden egg for more top fives like this head over to top-5 cnet.com i'm brian coulis thanks for watching