Adding Some Historical Context to Jimmy Kimmel's 'National UnFriend Day'

We’re not sure if Jimmy Kimmel picked the calendar date of November 17th for a particular reason when he decided to launch his Facebook clean-up initiative “National UnFriend Day (NUD).” In case you haven’t heard (or been watching), the most genial of all nighttime TV talk show hosts wants social networkers to do a little house cleaning next Wednesday and unburden themselves of in-FB-name-only “friends.”