OMG we're not BFFs anymore!

I just read this article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal entitled, OMG, We're not BFFs anymore? Getting un-friended online stings.

Unfriending online "friends" is emerging as the latest offense in the world of social networking. Sites such as Facebook and MySpace allow people to build personal profiles with photos, videos and up-to-the-minute updates about their lives, then to share them with select users, or "friends." The process has even turned the word "friend" into a verb, as in, "so-and-so just friended me on Facebook." Users agonize over whom to friend (your mom? your ex-boyfriend? your boss?), and worry about whether their friend requests will be accepted or ignored, lingering in cyberspace in what some dub "friend purgatory."

I found it funny that this was front page WSJ material. The article was nothing new or amazing, but I could relate to not having someone accept my friend request or finding that I was no longer friends with someone online and racking my brain to figure out why. My brother Jon has this happen on a regular basis.