I used to be a ‘friend’ of XXXXX, but today I noticed we are no longer friends. XXXXX’s page indicates we aren’t friends… “Send XXXXX a friend request” Does that mean XXXXX ‘unfriended’ me?
My assumption is yes.
Yes. Unless XXX decided to make a new Facebook and deleted their old one
Yes. People sometimes decided to clear up their news feed (especially now that it shows everything everyone “likes”) so they wind up unfriending a bunch of people.
^ You can simply unfollow people if you don’t want your news feed cluttered up.
Most ‘unfrienders’ are usually passive aggressive attention getters who need a constant stream of likes and comments from people.
I like to be passive-agressive back and send friend requests to people who have unfriended me. 
I have been unfriended by a couple of people that surprised me, and a couple that didn’t. It’s always a touchy situation, especially when they say “Don’t take it personally.” Um, really?
I have unfriended people with whom I have had absolutely no interaction or only was friends with as part of a group or something. My son’s ex-gf, who I considered practically a family member, has not only unfriended me but has completely blocked me (and my sister) on all social media. Very mature (and she’s a medical school grad…so we aren’t talking junior high).
If the page says “send a friend request” that means you are no longer FB friends with that FB screen name.
Yes but…
Sometimes it is an accident (or that’s what I tell myself)
Yesterday I noticed an unusual person in my feed. I had accidentally sent a friend request and became a follower by default.
It’s way easier to friend a person than to unfriend them.
I like my fantasies
Yeah- you don’t accidentally unfriend someone. On Twitter it’s easy to accidentally unfollow someone, but not Facebook.
There have been a few times when a friend of mine asked to “refriend” me, and I’m pretty sure I didn’t unfriend them. And I had someone “unfriend” me but I didn’t believe it was on purpose, so I re- friend requested them and they accepted immediately. But that’s usually not what happened. I’ve been unfriended and I’ve unfriended a few people. But mostly I just block them from my newsfeed if they post a lot of offensive memes, or if they are super popular on Facebook, and every other post is about them. I am friends with a lot of musicians, and I’ll check their page when I want to see what’s happening with them.
I got unfriended by a person that I used to work with years ago…she didn’t know she did it because she contacted my sister to ask if I deleted my FB because she didn’t see any of my posts anymore. Not only did she unfriend me, but she blocked me too , haha . She is kind of kooky , so I let it go.
I unfriended one person, a guy I went to school with. He got to be very vulgar and offensive , making comments about young girls that happened to be in the gas range of my own daughters . My childhood best friend and I laugh about him from time to time .
Also unfriended by my nephew’s nutty wife because she had an argument with one of my sisters , so she blocked several relatives that had nothing to do with her drama…we don’t always know the motivation , but I have learned to just not get worked up over it
I don’t unfriend anyone but I am a big blocker of people on my newsfeed. I just really don’t care what a lot if people are doing every second of the day.
Wow, I don’t know if I’d really notice if I lost a FB friend unless it was someone very close to me!
You never know their reasons. You can take a look at yourself/your postings - are you too political? Share too many cutesy things? Stuff like that can be a turn off to people and sometimes they will choose to unfriend rather than “block”. Or, if you aren’t super close with this person they may have just done housecleaning. Maybe they wanted to tone down their FB experience and keep it to family only or something - you just never know!
Don’t waste too much time worrying about it. It’s Facebook. 
That’s why I don’t accept friend requests from everyone who sends me one.
I don’t think I’ve ever unfriended someone – I’ve “unfollowed” them and make sure that my posts don’t show up in their newsfeed. I just did that to someone who posted something really obnoxious on my wall.
I have been unfriended – and the way I find out is when FB suggests that I friend that person. I find that really awkward – I wish their algorithms could catch that. And I’ve also been refriended by someone who unfriended me. I’ve also had people ignore my friend requests, people who I thought were friends.
All this makes me very grateful that FB didn’t exist when I was in middle school and high school.
The only person I remember unfriending was another mom in town - the mother of a childhood friend of one of my kids. She would constantly go on political rants and she and I did not share the same political leanings. It was irritating but I could deal with it.
The final straw was when she went on a huge rant against her own niece - calling the girl out by name - for having a child out of wedlock. It was so venomous and mean spirited, let alone unsupportive of a relative, I had no guilt about unfriending her. I don’t need that kind of negativity in my life. Good riddance.
I made one of my high school classmates an “acquaintance” instead of a “friend” so she no longer appears in my newsfeed. I didn’t mind her being a rabid Republican, but she posted a t-shirt that essentially equated the Penn State football coach/child molester with the President of the United States. I’m class secretary or she’d be gone completely.