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Facebook Timeline lets you see who has unfriended you
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Update: Facebook has disabled this new feature, which was clearly not supposed to be there. "It's been fixed now," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. The original article is below.
Currently, Facebook does not notify you when someone unfriends you on the social network. That may soon change with the upcoming Facebook Timeline feature, which will be replacing your current Facebook profile.

Unless Facebook changes this, you can actually see who has unfriended you during any point in time you've been on the social network. Here's how (via BuzzFeed):
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Choose a prior year on your Facebook Timeline and click on the number of friends you connected with that year in the Friends box.
Click on the "Made x New Friends" list - anyone with an Add Friend link next to their name either unfriended you, or you unfriended them.

If this is too much for you, stop now. If you can't get enough, repeat steps 2 and 3 with another year.
The Facebook Timeline feature is currently in beta, so it's very possible that Facebook will change how this feature works. It would not be very hard for the social network to only list people you are still Facebook friends with.

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I've asked Facebook about this little tidbit and will update this article if I hear back. I bet this is one of the things Palo Alto will want to consider tweaking before it rolls out the Timeline to everyone.

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What are Facebook Message Requests and how to see them: now you can contact anyone, even if you're not 'friends'

Facebook is making it easier to contact people via Messenger: all you need is their name.

Now, when someone sends you a message who isn’t at least a friend of a friend or has your phone number, it will show up as a ‘message request,’ which you can choose to accept or ignore.

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Previously, such messages would show up in a folder next to your inbox labelled ‘other.’ If that doesn’t sound familiar, it’s because it only shows up on the desktop; frankly, I forgot it even existed. Otherwise, you’d have to first add someone as a friend before messages would show up on your inbox or on mobile devices.

Basically, it makes messaging someone you just met as easy as it is to add them in the first place, removing a step before you can start communicating. And though it may seem a little more invasive than the old method of just separating messages from strangers, it also makes it easy to communicate with people without having to actually add them to your friend list. I mean, maybe you’re not even really friends IRL, after all.

Of course, nobody wants spam messages, so Facebook says it will continue weeding those out.

It may seem like a small update, but Facebook is calling it a ‘fundamental development’ that will affect the way people use Messenger. That’s probably a reference to Facebook Messenger as a platform, such as allowing businesses to contact you via the IM service (again, without the need to friend each other).

Message requests are starting to roll out to all Facebook users today.

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