Delete your Facebook Friends
A non-neglictible part of this blog’s readers come for my Facebook scripts, which aim at automating a few things via javascript. One of those readers recently suggested a utility for automatically deleting friends. The reason for that is that he’s so popular he hits the 5,000 Facebook friends limit and can’t add any of the 11,000 peeps that sent him a request 
So, a workaround would be to first delete all of his current friends to make room for the new ones.
Now, my solution is not perfect because Facebook displays friends within a 50-items paging system. Which means you would need to run it 100 times to get rid of all your friends. Still, that’s a 50x improvement ratio if you really do need to delete your friends. The code is the following:
var remove = $$('a.remove');
for (var i = 0; i < remove.length; i++){
remove[i].onclick();
$('dialog_button1').click();
}
which you need to run at http://www.facebook.com/friends/?all. I also wrote a Greasemonkey script here or at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24199. Hope that helps somebody
March 21st, 2008 at 4:50 am
@Jesse:
just out of curiosity, what’s your Facebook profile ?!?
March 21st, 2008 at 12:33 pm
@Julien:
shot ya an email
May 8th, 2008 at 4:55 am
I’m wondering if this still works for you? I was testing it and though it comes up in my greasemonkey scripts it doesn’t seem to run. any thoughts?
August 5th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Thanks for this! I modified it to delete friends from a certain group as when you delete from a group you get the option to remove from list or delete & then you need to confirm the deletion.
var remove = $$(’a.remove’);for (var i = 0; i
November 15th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Did anyone get this script to work with the new facebook???? I got about 600 friends I mass added for mob wars to delete…….and the script doesn’t seem to work.
if someone modified it and got it to work, please upload your entire working script so i can copy paste. THANKS!!!
February 7th, 2009 at 9:34 am
how do you run the script sorry new here
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I agree. I would love a working copy of this where I can select only the group to delete from… I’m afraid to even try it currently as I don’t want any of my real friends removed…only the Mobwars and Mafiawars groups/lists.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:22 am
How do you run a script? I mass added for mafia wars too and would love to delete 50 at a time instead of one! thanks!
May 18th, 2009 at 3:57 am
nice post… good information… thanks…
May 29th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Is it still working? i’m not able to use it.
Please help