Mon Nov 17th, 2025
National Unfriend Day is a day for today, 17 November, in every sense of the word, where under the ever burgeoning weight of social media, occasionally parting ways with unfamiliar faces can be refreshingly liberating.
Ever scrolled through your media feed and realised you don’t recognise half the names popping up in your News Feed?
Friend list at 1000 people and counting? Is your wall cluttered with posts you don’t care about from people you don’t remember? Then National Unfriend Day is just what the doctor ordered.
A sort of de-cluttering of the soul (or at least your social network) that doesn’t cut it for you anymore.
Freedom comes in many forms – a time to streamline our internet experiences, allowing us to use our profiles to keep in touch with people we really care about, and preserving the true definition of ‘friend.’
Celebrate National Unfriend Day by taking advantage of this judgement-free opportunity to ditch the total strangers and on our ‘friend’ lists!
On a slightly more serious note, National Unfriend Day can in fact be a good time to think about the amount of superficial relationships people engage in the era of social media, ‘likes’, ‘retweets’, etc. Are we possibly neglecting the people in our life who really love us and care about our well-being while we wither away sitting in front of our laptop for hours on end?
Habits are always evolving – as are our awareness of who really mean something to us – not the erratic, non-connections of moments long lost.
Just do it – “unfriend wisely” that is!
“Sometimes the bridges you burn light the right way.”
“Unfriend like you’re Blocker Roach – just block, block and block again!”
