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Systematic Facebook "friend" removal?

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Pudge
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I don't know how frequent this happens but has anyone found better methods for this? I was on Facebook and I said to myself, "fuck I don't like or know any of these people". So I went on a purge.

I know it was my fault but when sending/accepting request; it's just one here or there. You tell yourself "I think I know them" or "They go to my school". Whatever the excuse is, after 4 years of Facebook you'll find these "friends" and you just don't want them on your Dashboard/reading what you have to share. But there are so many additional windows and prompts you must click through when deleting a "friend". Even 20 can take you a long time. I was looking to delete closer to a few hundred...

I found myself going through the calendars of birthdays and scrolling over the thumbnails. If I scrolled over someone who's name I cannot recognize or what have you, I went through the steps and after an hour and only like 15 or so down. I did finish but after a good amount of time.

Does anyone have a good way for the systematic removal of "friends"? Not that anyone should EVER have to do this more than once, just curious.
Aug 22 2012 12:16AM
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soulskier
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after deleting mine and then restarting it i was alot more selective so i dont have to delete anyone
Aug 22 2012 12:25AM
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NinetyFour
Posts: 8650 - Karma: 13,409
It takes forever... Also delete my entire wall accept for some of my "good" statuses every few months. That takes a long time to.
Aug 22 2012 12:30AM
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theabortionator
Posts: 51284 - Karma: 157,867
What's the point of that
Aug 22 2012 12:32AM
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klayer_9
Posts: 2037 - Karma: 188
OP deactivate your facebook, should solve problem.
Aug 22 2012 1:08AM
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iSmokeweed
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if this is one of your problems.... you need bigger problems in life.
Aug 22 2012 1:16AM
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Pudge
Posts: 3718 - Karma: 3,117
Sorry I have a care free life? Let me go make it more stressful. I just want to use Facebook for Facebook
Aug 22 2012 8:06AM
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theBearJew
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dude it takes 2 seconds to delete someone.. you click on their profile, go to where it says "Friends" hover over it, and click unfriend. Boom done. I just did it while writing this post.

If you have THAT many people you want to delete, start your FB over.
Aug 22 2012 9:40AM
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elemeno89
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i think there is a firefox script. google facebook mass friend removal.
Aug 22 2012 10:11AM
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CrotchKiller
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thats cute
Aug 22 2012 10:15AM
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YoungChristmas
Posts: 1065 - Karma: 2,105
Step 1. Go to Snookis page
Step 2. Delete Friends who like snooki
Step 3. Enjoy a less annoying facebook
Step 4. ????????
Step 5. Profit?
Aug 22 2012 12:59PM
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baethoven
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what the fuck? why?




Aug 22 2012 1:02PM
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PON3
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I only have 120 friends. But I still feel like that a lot!
Aug 22 2012 1:12PM
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k-rob
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i delete people all the time, it's not that hard, you click what 3 buttons and they're gone, takes about 5 seconds. but yeah back in the day i deleted a solid 300 or so people from my list at once and i remember it taking a while. once those people are gone though, it's pretty easy to take care of who you want to keep or not.
Aug 22 2012 1:19PM
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bdarb207
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With timeline everything from any year since you've had fb can be pulled up with one click. For me personally I'm going through a background check for a school, and while I don't post very irresponsibly who the hell knows hat was written on my wall by myself or others during four years of college? Shits not worth it. I'm deleting it and remaking it clean, way easier.
Aug 22 2012 1:37PM
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Peter.
Posts: 23796 - Karma: 13,012
no one cares, it's facebook. if people are annoying thta pop up in your newsfeed, unsubscribe
Aug 22 2012 1:45PM
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.Hugo.
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Just delete them everyday when you see abirthday pop up and you don't recognize the person.
Aug 22 2012 3:00PM
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CrotchKiller
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420danktree
Aug 22 2012 3:07PM
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