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Preemptive unfriending 

When one deletes a friend from Facebook because he or she knows that the Facebook friend in question would eventually delete them instead. Preemptive unfriending thus robs the deleted Facebook friend of the joy of being able to delete them.
John: Why'd you delete Bec from you friend list?
Adam: I knew she'd eventually delete me so I wanted to take the satisfaction of unfriending for myself.
John: Ah, a preemptive unfriending.

Pending Unfriending 

When someone you're friends with on a social network takes too much of an interest in their profile (generates an excessive amount of posts) or in your profile (generates an excessive amount of comments on your profile), and you contemplate terminating the "friend" status.

Contemplation can also be due to terminated relationships, etc.
Girl 1: Oh my God... Becky is so annoying on Facebook. She comments on like, ALL of my pictures.

Girl 2: I know, right! Right now she's Pending Unfriending.

funfriending

Unfriending someone who deserves to be unfriended, usually because they post many obnoxious statuses, pictures or wall posts.
Not Steve: "I funfriended the shit out out of Steve after he spammed my newsfeed about his new Jeep Wrangler. What a giant fucking douche."

Also Not Steve: "Funfriending is cathartic and fun!"

Untrending 

Trends that are just past their prime. Often, a sizable number of people will not be aware that this has happened.
Those jeans are untrending so fast, they'll be 20 dollars in a month.
Untrending by waterygrave November 30, 2010

Upfriending

When you acquire jet wealth you ditch your old less wealthy friends for the rich folks.
Steve sold his business for millions and then ditched his less wealthy friends for the rich and famous, basically upfriending
Upfriending by anonymous August 25, 2023