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March 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Site now suggests friends to ‘demote’
- Users see fewer posts from ‘acquaintances’
- Victims will never know their new status, says Facebook
By
Rob Waugh
05:24 EST, 23 March 2012
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10:26 EST, 23 March 2012
Facebook has unveiled a new tool which lets you demote ‘friends’ to just being ‘acquaintances’.
The tool actually suggests friends who might be ripe for the chop – based on people who you haven’t messaged or interacted with for a while.
Once a friend has been ‘demoted’, you see fewer of their posts in your news feed – but they’ll never know of their new, lower status.
The ‘acquaintances’ list has been around since last year – but the new tool makes it easier to demote friends, by suggesting ‘victims’ from your Friends list
‘Last autumn, we introduced the Close Friends and Acquaintances lists to help you see more posts in news feed from your close friends, and fewer from acquaintances you don’t know as well,’ says Facebook engineer Jonathan Coens.
‘Today we’re announcing a tool to make it easier to add friends to your Acquaintances list.’
The tool works like a negative version of the ‘suggested Friends’ the site occasionally offers.
When you visit your Acquaintances list (next to your Friends list) a new option pops up – ‘See All Suggestions’.
The friends on the list are people who Facebook suggests might belong among your acquaintances instead.
Coens is keen to emphasise that the victims will never know what’s happened.
‘When you add friends to your Acquaintances list they won’t be unfriended or notified. You’ll just see fewer of their posts in news feed.
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Google+ all the way, here. This has been there since it launched. Not a big deal.
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I like Facebook. It is a good way for me to keep in touch with friends who I do not live near. I moved away from where I grew up and I also have a friends in Canada and India that I keep in touch with through Facebook. Though compared to some I have a tiny friends list and I do not use Facebook very often.
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Hghly amusing!
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if you really need a machine to suggest the people you should ‘demote’, then you probably spend too much time on there in the first place, adding random strangers thanks to nonsense like farmville. my friends list usually has 150-200 people on it, and i have regular culls of people i added on a whim. how anyone can seriously be interested in the lives of 500+ people is beyond me.
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I read somewhere we are now a society of “likes”. If someone “likes” an action, for instance a 10K run, then the person clicking the like button felt as if he/she had done it too. I don’t use facebook but people who live on it are brainwashed and need some kind of treatment to get over it.
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I deactivated my account end of December just last year, and I don’t miss it one bit. I re-activated the other day just to see how I felt about it, and deactivated it again, and probably for good, after seeing 5 pictures of people taking pictures of themselves in bathroom mirrors in my news feed. My close family and friends have my phone number and email address. I don’t really care about the others. Facebook was fun in 2007. It is ridiculous now, and I just can’t be bothered.
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Another reason why I don’t have a Fb account anymore. I quit after one month after seeing what it was all about. Never again. Fb is evil and a useful spy tool. Fb is like an online high school. Narcissisism and Fake being the most popular girls in school. There are only a small amount of people who really use it for the purpose that it was first created for. But even Fb changed that purpose now.
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Well, nobody neither have or need 3750 friends, as is the fact of some of the accounts; silly!
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It doesn’t matter what tool/method I use…FB decides which posts I want to see….unless I unfriend (is that even a word??) them and they disappear forever. I’ve given up on it and use it to keep up with the gkid pics posted. Even then I still have to go to each page to see the new posts. And these are my own kids fer cryin out loud.
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Another reason why Facebook is the Devils playground. Nothing but trouble.
Its making people lazy and addicted to gorping at their smartphones.
‘Real’ friends should know your phone number/email address and where you live. Facebook is just for people to be nosey/nasty/spiteful/brag about their ‘perfect’ lives.
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