How to Delete Multiple Friends from Your Facebook Profile

Most of us have a lot of unwanted friends, or people we may not even know, but when it comes to removing them, it’s a really time consuming process. Normally, you would have to go to their profile and Unfriend them from the drop down menu, but this does not work if you want to remove a large number of people from your friends list. Although there are a lot of plugins for your browser that may promise this facility, most of them are either out dated or doesn’t work. Lately, a couple of good and effective plugins were released for the sole purpose of removing multiple friends from your Facebook profile, they were made available for Firefox as well as Chrome.

Once you’ve installed the plugin a check box would appear next to your friends’ name. Select the friends you want to remove and hit the ‘Delete Selected Friends’ button on the top.

There are two different plugins for Firefox and Chrome users. We’d be using Greasemonkey for Firefox and Tampermonkey for Chrome.

Steps for Firefox Users:

Download and Install Greasemonkey, it’s a free plugin available as an addon for Firefox.
Install the ‘Delete Facebook Friends’ plugin, the Install button could be found on the top-right of the page.
Go to your friends’ list on Facebook and you should be able to a see tick box next to your friends, select all the people you’d like to remove and hit the Delete Selected Friends button. If you need to remove a lot of people then, it would be easier to click the select all button and then deselect the people you don’t want to remove.
After you’ve completed the process, you’d be greeted with a message containing the number of friends you removed.

Steps for Chrome Users:

Download and Install Tampermonkey for Chrome. It’s a free plugin which is available in the Chrome Web Store.
Install the ‘Delete Facebook Friends’ plugin, the Install button could be found on the top-right of the page.
Go to your friends’ list on Facebook and you should be able to a see tick box next to your friends, select all the people you’d like to remove and hit the Delete Selected Friends button. If you need to remove a lot of people then, it would be easier to click the select all button and then deselect the people you don’t want to remove.
After you’ve completed the process, you’d be greeted with a message containing the number of friends you removed.

So that’s how you remove multiple friends with just a click of a few buttons. These plugins would surely save you loads of time.