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by carlmr 2508 days ago
I have an iterative unfriending algorithm, because doing big clean ups is a mental task. Whenever Facebook notifies me that somebody has a birthday, if I don't feel like telling them happy birthday, I'll unfriend them instead.
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So the key to remaining your Facebook friend is to not publish your birthday on Facebook!
That's true. Also no annoying vacation diaries. If they don't get filtered I might unfriend you for those, too.
A variation on this is to disable your account the day before your birthday, then re-enable it a day after. Then see who manages to still tell you happy birthday without the reminder from Facebook.
So.. like 5 friends?
Brutal, I love it.