Chris Neumann is on to something. Maybe you could put “removed” friends in a certain list (”Distant friends”, or something like that?), and remove them from the main Friends list.

Perhaps the new groups and the up-coming per-user privacy settings can be used to restrict what some friends see on your profile..

We heard from users that they did not like this requirement, so we removed it. Just click skip and you are done. You won’t be asked again, though it would be nice (if you like it) if you invited people.

The ones that spam all your friends when you install them are the worst. Particularly the ones that aren’t up front about what they are doing. Like when you get a message that “so and so” sent you a message - then you click to view it and it takes you to the app install page. It should never be allowed.

We’re just reporting on it.

We’re not doing anything nefarious to point it out, are we?

Expecting that people do not realize that someone has unfriended them is not a reasonable expectation of privacy on Facebook. Two people were friends … one of them unfriends…if the other takes the time to scan their own list every day, they will notice the lack of the former friend.

Hoping that someone will not notice an unfriend is like Yahoo! canceling another application/service and hoping you won’t notice and put it in the deadpool!

We don’t violate the TOS, as far as I can tell. Given that FB has been reviewing it for almost a month, they must not think so either, as the app is currently written.

We do not scrape, which I believe would violate the TOS (We read TC enough to know that we would not get away with that!). We just look at the information that is available in the API to everyone and use it according to the TOS to provide information that a lot of fans want to know (good guess damon)

A note on privacy: there are actually two modes. In private mode, only you see the results of a friend break up. In public, everyone does. Believe it or not, given the general bias of developers, we default to private. So, if you are just curious whether one of your 500 friends has “left the fold”, you can find out. If you had three friends, it would be obviously, right? If you sat and copied all your 500 friends every day on to a note pad, you could figure it out, right? We’re just giving you a heads up.

What we object to and worry about is ipso facto changes to broad business rules at Facebook. I’m not talking about the kind of fine tuning to numbers of invites, etc., which applies to everyone. We’re worried about evaluation of apps and accepting and rejecting them based on their utility (or perhaps because they compete with Facebook’s own features). We don’t think that would be good long term for Facebook, because is discourages development. We really want to see Facebook succeed, because we love Facebook and the Facebook Platform!

Jason
(www.faceitapps.com)

nhick
http://www.itrush.com

what are you a coward? IF you cant be honest and say to some one you dont want to be their friend/acquintance anymore, then maybe you need your head examined. It is more creepier to have these people still think you are friends with them. Hey but with 2997 friends, its no wonder people have problems like that.

http://tekno-world.blogspot.com

In short, Apps are permitted to store content-identifying numbers (user IDs, event IDs, et cetera), but they cannot store any relationship data about those IDs (e.g. if a user is attending an event, or–importantly–whether two users are friends). Relationships must be queried from Facebook every time they are needed by an app. Since an app adhering to those guidelines would only ever have one set of friend relations available (those that Facebook returns at that moment), they shouldn’t be able to figure out what has changed since the last query.

That said, it may be the case that the Developer Terms of Service ( http://developers.facebook.com/terms.php ) technically gives users the right to grant permission to apps to export whatever data they want (see Section 1, definition of “Exportable Facebook Property”; Section 2, Subsection A, Clause 6; and Section 2, Subsection B, Clause 8.), pursuant to a “full-disclosure opt-in.” If FaceIt provided such a disclose, they might be within the legal letter of the TOS (though Facebook could easily clarify/change the TOS to disallow it).

If they’re scraping (which they don’t need to) or storing (might have to) the list of friends, then it is. But the UIDs of all the friends of one person is easily available using the platform. They just need to check for a difference between two comparisons, and they’ll have the friends who were removed.

This is extremely obtrusive however, though if you add the application, you obviously want to share the information. It’s all about individual freedom.