The web is buzzing about a new iPhone app that will alert you to the fact that one of your friends, well, doesn’t want to be your friend anymore. Even ABC News highlighted it in a recent article. The Defriended app ($0.99, iTunes link) monitors your Facebook friends list and tells you if you are unlucky enough to have been—gulp—defriended. Or is it unfriended?
As Facebook users well know, the site will alert you when you get a new friend, when your friend has a birthday coming up, when a friend writes on your wall, but for some reason neglects to mention when one of your friends decides you’re taking up too much room on their friend list.
The app was just released on Tuesday, so it hasn’t attracted many reviews yet. The few users who comment on the app at the iTunes store say they’re happy that someone has finally come up with something like this. From the official app description:
Once you’ve run defriended for the first time, this app then tracks your facebook friends list. Each time you run the app it compares your friends list with the last time you ran the app, and tells you which friends are now missing. Simple as that.
My big question is: if you are defriended by someone, do you really want to know about it? Ouch. I would rather live in blissful ignorance, continuing to believe that all my Facebook friends actually like me.
Defriended is a $0.99 download at the iTunes store.
