De-Friending Family
Should I nix a former in-law from my Facebook page after a divorce?
Posted Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, at 4:11 PM
This week, Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe debate the question: Is it necessary to “de-friend” someone who is leaving your family due to divorce? A letter writer worries that she has to drop her former sister-in-law from her friends list because she’s severing marital ties.
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Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society. You can email him at farhad.manjoo@slate.com and follow him on Twitter.
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