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Every so often, I want to remove someone from my Friends list, not out of anger but simply because their entries don't appeal to me much anymore. As yet, however, I have never de-Friended anyone who still had me on their own list. Partly I don't want to risk shrinking my already small readership, but mainly I don't know how to do it without feeling rude. My LJ doesn't bar non-Friends from replying, but an ex-Friend might still discover their removal on their own. Even posting this entry give me a nagging feeling of rudeness, despite not having implicated any particular Friends.

My grasp on face-to-face etiquette is weak enough. Does anyone know a good source for netiquette?