To 'unfollow' someone on Facebook?

[AugustaProdworthy]

I've just seen a post which shows 4 of my 'friends' out having fun. Glad they are are enjoying themselves but feeling miffed I knew nothing about it and obviously not invited. I only know because I'd popped onto FB and it was there.
can I unfollow these people without them knowing? Does it show up on their account or feeds?

I just think, for my levels of anxiety, I would like to quietly unfollow so I don't get any more nasty surprises.
Feeling sad and left out but the grown up bit of me knows that a) I couldn't have gone anyway and b) you can't invite everyone to every social do so they have not been unreasonable.

You can hide their feed. I think you do it by clicking on their name/profile and clicking the hide option.

yes if you unfollow rather than unfriend they will never no. they will still see your updates but you wont see theirs, unless you actually go on their wall to look

No, they won't notice that they've been 'defriended' unless they keep a close eye on how many friends they have.
You can also turn off their feed so you don't see their updates. Again this is invisible

They won't know if you unfollow/hide them. I only follow about 50% of my FB friends, maybe less.

I've hidden the post.
I've also clicked on 'follow' and I think I am not not following the friend who posted.
Phew.
I don;t want to unfriend anyone, I don't wish to be rude I just don't need to know when everyones having fun without me and that I have no mates.

I hide posts I had this with friends of mine they akways said we should do more and up would pop nights out lunches yes its petty but it did hurt so I just hide them

You can hide them easily.
If you spout shit you'll get hidden. :)
Makes me happy!

I wonder if im hidden by anybody bet I am

Was it a pre-planned night out? Sometimes things just happen on the spur of the moment. For example last weekend I was doing my supermarket shop when I got a text off a friend saying a couple of them were going to the pub and did I fancy it. I was like 'yeah will head down there when I have finished my shopping'. It was totally on the spur of the moment. In instances like these you can't start ringing round everyone just in case someone gets offended.

I have this too. Women im friendLY with and i think we know each other equally well and then realise, oh, no, clearly not. Then paranoia paralyses me somwhat and instead of continuing to be friendly i stop bothering cos i think they dont want me as a friend anyhoo

I've unfollowed many many people on my FB feed and am much happier as a result.

Yeah. I've done that to my depressed friends. I didn't want to read their negative posts all the time, but didn't want to unfriend them and make it worse. You can unfollow and they'll never know.

If you're not sure whether you've done it just visit their profile page, it will say right under the profile picture whether you follow them or not.

Unfollow is great - still can message them or go look at their wall but can remove people with very tedious posts/shares. Yes I'm looking at you with your new business venture that seems to rely on bombarding your friends, and also yes to you that does a pouting selfie nearly every day!!!

Yeah, I've unfollowed the "juice plus" peddlers

The easiest way of doing it is to go on their profile and click on the friends button. From there you get an option to add to acquaintances. Add them as acquaintances and you remain friends.

Go to your Facebook page and into your status bar, there a drop down menu listing who your statuses visible to, choose friends not acquaintances.

You will no longer see their updates and they won't see yours, they will just think you don't use it much. You will still be listed as a friend so you avoid any fallout.
The few members of dh's family I have left are all my acquaintance list.

This happened to me recently. Turns out I was actually invited but the invite went to an email address i hadn't checked that day. Are you sure you weren't invited?