“How can I delete all my friends from my Facebook friend list?” Lately a few people have asked me this question. The first thing I wonder about it is: “why do you want to unfriend all your FB friends?” —but the online social networking, as we know it, could really get to one’s nerves –and people feel compelled to start all over again. In such cases, you may consider deactivating your Facebook account.
But if you don’t want to deactivate and want to remove all friends… then the answer is that so far Facebook has not provided any quick way to accomplish this goal.
There are third party scripts available out there but I do not recommend using any such scripts because these programs may compromise your account information. So, there is no one click solution to the problem. You will have to delete friends one by one manually.
Quickly Delete Multiple Facebook Friends: Update- September 2014
Unfortunately, Facebook is taking all the options away that allow easier deletion of multiple friends. At present the easiest way is that you click on “View Activity Log” button given on your cover photo.
Now click on MORE option given in the sidebar. This will reveal Friends option. Click on Friends to see the list of all your friends.
Friends link in Activity LogAgainst each of your friend, there would be a pencil icon. Click on it and you’ll get option to Unfriend. Click Unfriend and then confirm to remove friend from your list.
Quickly Unfriend Multiple Facebook Friends: Update – March 2014
Facebook keeps on changing its interface -so the older methods of doing something keep getting useless. The latest method is as below:
Log into your Facebook Account and then go to your Timeline.
Click on the Activity Log button positioned in the bottom-right corner of your cover image.
Facebook Timeline Activity Log ButtonOn Activity Log page, you’ll find a sidebar on left-hand side.
In this sidebar, under Photos, Likes, Comments, you’ll see MORE link. Click on this link and you’ll get more choices. Now click on Friends link.
Upon clicking Friends link, you’ll all your activities related to making friends and unfriending them.
Friends link in Activity LogHere you can unfriend any of your friend. But when you’ll do so, Facebook will pop up a box and ask you to confirm your acting.
Good news is that we can get rid of this confirmation box and thereby we can rather easily delete lots of friends. Let’s see how.
In your browser’s address bar, remove www part and type m instead. Be careful and don’t change anything else in the address. Now press enter to go to mobile version of the same page.
Remove www and write m in its place.On the mobile version, you’ll see an unfriend link under the name of each of your friends. Click unfriend link. In mobile version Facebook doesn’t ask for confirmation and therefore unfriending is just a one-click-affair.
I hope this helps you! You may also be interested in reading my article on Simplifying your Facebook Life
Following are older methods, they don’t work anymore.
Delete Multiple Facebook Friends: Update – 2013
Go to your friend list. Take your cursor on the “Friend” button available next to the name of the friend you want to unfriend. A drop-down menu appears with “Unfriend” option given at the end.
Quickly delete multiple friends from Facebook. Step 1Click on the “Unfriend” option to delete that friend from your list. Facebook will show a box for confirmation. Click “Remove from Friends” button.
Quickly delete multiple friends from Facebook. Step 2Now comes the real trick. Facebook will show you a box saying that so and so friend has been deleted from your list. If you will click the OK button given on this box –the page will reload and will slow down your further “unfriending” process.
So, you don’t click this OK button and straightway go to the next unfriend option! Simple –isn’t it?!
You may also be interested in Simplifying your Facebook Life
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Someday this can happen to you too: you will have 5000 friends, and you will no longer be able to add new ones. I ran into this - and here's how I solved my problem.
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It is important to understand that all existing auto-delete scripts work very badly and can delete quite valuable friends. In addition, Facebook itself may block some outdated script by requiring you to change your password. Therefore, do not hope - you will have to delete friends manually.
Where to start?
It's important to understand that 5,000 friends is 416 full screens of a MacBook 13.
So you'll have to scroll 416 times before all your friends load in the browser. It is quite expected that the browser will start to slow down.
Facebook does not allow bulk deletion. Do not tick. You will have to click on each and make Unfriend with your hands.
Imagine: 1000 clicks like this
I made a mistake and did not immediately think about how I would delete, so I started doing it randomly.
My first experience and first results
I noticed that some of the profiles did not have a photo, and then I saw that the profiles themselves were deleted. So the first thing I did was to hunt ghosts and remove them. I found about 50 people, and it took me two hours.
Where are they from?
Here the reader will ask "Man, where did you get 50 ghosts?" and will be right. Once I wrote a mega-popular article “33 resume life hacks that will double your salary”, and requests for friends poured in hundreds.
At the moment, 1.3 million people have read the article, and in more than two years I made 5,000 friends (and after 4,000 I rejected a lot of applications). 7500 subscribers indicate that there were at least 20 thousand applications.
And what's next?
After deleting the ghosts, I accidentally refreshed the page and had to re-scroll 416 times to load the full list of friends. I don’t know why I did it, I thought that this way I would go through the list again and find someone else to remove. A full scroll of friends takes about 15 minutes.
When I was ready, I decided to delete everyone who only had one friend. This was only one of my contacts. Then I started looking for who had two friends, three, four, five - and so on up to 50. I searched corny by searching for Command-F and the phrase “1 friend”. In short, I deleted about 150 friends this way.
Algorithm!
And then it occurred to me - friend, you need an algorithm! Then I figured out who should stay and who should be removed.
I took a quick look at the profiles in the list and found that if a person has less than 500 friends, such a profile is usually semi-abandoned and useless for me with rare exceptions. So I decided to delete everyone with less than 500 friends.
And now life hack
To delete these profiles, it was necessary to review absolutely all friends, and here I came across an article that if you substitute m instead of www in the list of friends, then a mobile version is displayed, where unfrined happens super easily, besides, the page is lighter and loads faster.
Mobile version of the site
In addition, in this version there is no question whether I really want to delete a friend.
Thus, in about four hours, out of 5000 friends, I left only 4000.
Please note that if you have mutual friends and this fact was not hidden by your contact, instead of the number of friends, you will see the number of mutual friends.
I didn’t touch those, although I remembered for the future - if I reach the limit again, I will delete those with whom there are very few common friends.
And then what?
It is clear that it is not enough to remove friends, you need to decide which applications you will accept further and which not.
For myself, I decided to accept applications only from:
Now it makes my life much easier.
Maybe you have your own secrets for working with the list of friends, I'll be happy to read them in the comments.
December 27 Social media instructions
Contents:
The Facebook social network was created for acquaintance, communication and networking.
However, there comes a point when your friends list is full. Then you decide to get rid of users with whom there is no desire to continue communication. Let's see how this can be done easily and quickly.
Help. The person you have unfriended will not receive a notification about this. If you do not want him to write you a message or view your profile, block him according to the principle indicated above.
Do the same, but instead of "Remove ‹Person's name› from friends" select "Block ‹Person's name›". This button is one step above.
When you remove a person from your friends list, the same action automatically takes place on his part. If you suddenly change your mind and want to see him again as a friend, then you need to throw a request for friendship and wait for a response. After a while, a notification will appear stating that your friend has accepted the application. So feel free to keep in touch.
There is a second, just as fast way to remove an unnecessary profile from the list:
Confirm your choice. IMPORTANT. If you don't want this person to bother you, block them. To do this, select one item above with the inscription "Block ‹Person's name›"
It happens that your page on the social network Facebook is heavily clogged with unnecessary personalities. When this happens, you realize that it's better to completely remove everyone and just add the really important people. Therefore, it will be useful to understand how to remove several or all Facebook users in your account at once.
Let's figure out how to do it quickly, you can say in one click.
Deleting multiple people requires more effort.
Important. If this extension doesn't suit you, there are some other good options. All Friends Remover for Facebook™, Friend Remover Free - Delete All Friends, Mass Friends Deleter - Delete all friends. All of them operate on the same principle, and their installation takes no more than 5 minutes. Go to your Facebook friends list.
