Personality and motivations associated with Facebook use
Computers in Human Behavior
Face off: Implications of visual cues on initiating friendship on Facebook
Computers in Human Behavior
Review: Students' and teachers' use of Facebook
Computers in Human Behavior
The Ties That Bond: Re-Examining the Relationship between Facebook Use and Bonding Social Capital
HICSS '11 Proceedings of the 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Unfriending on Facebook: Friend Request and Online/Offline Behavior Analysis
HICSS '11 Proceedings of the 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
A look at unsociability on Facebook
BCS-HCI '13 Proceedings of the 27th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference
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We consider Facebook unfriending as a form of relationship termination with negative emotional and cognitive consequences. Specifically, ruminative and negative emotional responses are examined via an online survey of adult Facebook users who were unfriended. These responses were positively related to each other and to Facebook intensity. Rumination was positively predicted by using Facebook to connect with existing contacts and was more likely when the unfriender was a close partner. Participants also responded with greater rumination and negative emotion when they knew who unfriended them, when they thought they were unfriended for Facebook-related reasons, and when participants initiated the Facebook friend request. The contribution of these exploratory findings to our growing understanding of negative relational behaviors on Facebook are discussed.