Thanks Sneaks. I think it's more dramatic than that, his account has completely disapeared, and what makes that even odder to me is that I tried to delete my account about 6 moths ago and couldn't, the closest I could get was to have it go dormant, no deletion allowed.
Sorry Sneaks, my firend is not the marrying kind... In fact I did suspect facebook of being jealous of his status as a very popular and much featured 'hot gay bloke with a beard' on that particular FB interest group. He's my old friend from about 20 years ago, he used to live in my parent's house when he was an undergrad and we've stayed good pals ever since.