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Ever wondered who decided to end a friendship on Facebook with you over the years? A feature built into Facebook's new Timeline profile page allows users to check out previous friends.

Assuming that a user has already enabled the new Timeline profile page on Facebook, there’s a feature built into the Timeline that allows to users to view how many friends were added each year. Go to the Timeline page and choose a year on the right side of the page. Scroll through the posts and locate the “Friends” box. Within the Timeline, Facebook groups actions that occurred over the course of the year including new friendships, photos uploaded, events attended and new likes. On the “Friends” box, click the “Made X New Friends” link and this should load a pop-up window that lists all friendships created during that year.

friends-timelineScroll through the list and anyone that terminated the friendship will appear with an “Add Friend” button rather than a “Friends” button. However, the “Add Friend” could also mean that the user terminated the friendship. Users that deleted their profiles at some point over the years won’t appear on this list and users that have been blocked won’t appear here as well. For instance, an ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend won’t appear within this list if the blocking feature was enabled to completely cut out that person from a user’s social network.

The Timeline change to the profile page represents a massive alteration to the original Facebook design. The new design allows users to select both a banner picture to go across the front of the profile as well as the identical profile picture. Users can scroll through the profile timeline by month or by year. Information that was listed on the info link of the profile page is now within the Timeline design as well. For instance, users can scroll through the years and view previous jobs. Users can also assign photos to previous jobs, both on the start and the end dates. Timeline should be available to all Facebook users within the next two weeks.

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  1. Digital Trends at 5:58pm 5th October 2011 Christopher Mercer from digitaltrends.com said:This doesn't work for me, the pop-up only shows present friends, 'show all' freezes and makes my browser(mozilla and chrome) prompt me to stop script.
  2. Christopher Mercer at 9:55pm 24th September 2011 This doesn't work for me, the pop-up only shows present friends, 'show all' freezes and makes my browser(mozilla and chrome) prompt me to stop script.
    1. Joe Hoyle at 9:13am 26th September 2011 Strange, exact same thing happens for me
  3. Constantine Stamos at 12:11am 25th September 2011 The Chrome browser has the "Unfriend Finder" extension that tells you who defriended you or deactivated their accounts. I also think it's available for Firefox as a greasemonkey script.
  4. Constantine Stamos at 12:11am 25th September 2011 The Chrome browser has the "Unfriend Finder" extension that tells you who defriended you or deactivated their accounts. I also think it's available for Firefox as a greasemonkey script.
  5. Constantine Stamos at 12:11am 25th September 2011 The Chrome browser has the "Unfriend Finder" extension that tells you who defriended you or deactivated their accounts. I also think it's available for Firefox as a greasemonkey script.
  6. Sara Brown at 10:10pm 24th September 2011 @John Griffin, I heard it was corrected several hours ago
  7. Sara Brown at 10:10pm 24th September 2011 @John Griffin, I heard it was corrected several hours ago
  8. Sara Brown at 10:10pm 24th September 2011 @John Griffin, I heard it was corrected several hours ago
  9. John Griffin at 10:06pm 24th September 2011 Hmm...I just went through each year on my timeline looking at this and it's not showing anyone I'm not currently friends with, though I know I've defriended (and been defriended) several times. Is it possible they corrected this since (or in response to) this article?
  10. John Griffin at 10:06pm 24th September 2011 Hmm...I just went through each year on my timeline looking at this and it's not showing anyone I'm not currently friends with, though I know I've defriended (and been defriended) several times. Is it possible they corrected this since (or in response to) this article?
  11. Philip Palmer at 9:58pm 24th September 2011 I don't think I'll lose any sleep over it but it'd be interesting to see who did.
  12. Bradley Wint at 8:36pm 24th September 2011 who cares... im pretty sure you didnt even notice otherwise...showing how important they rly were in your life
  13. Stephen Editing Hirst at 8:33pm 24th September 2011 facebook really know how to start a war online
  14. Mrnmrs Hated Newsome at 8:32pm 24th September 2011 This is silly who cares ......im your friend im not your friend its a web site for gods sake! People need to stop taking it so serious
  15. Patrick Jaden at 8:27pm 24th September 2011 No it wasn't...
  16. Nancy Bradford at 8:24pm 24th September 2011 The app was a scam.
  17. Patrick Jaden at 8:17pm 24th September 2011 yess, there was an app to tell you but now they let you see~
  18. Nancy Bradford at 8:16pm 24th September 2011 Why would anyone care who defriended them?
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