Facebook: Delete or Remove Friend
Contributed by David Kirk 
Tagged: Internet Everybody loves friends on Facebook… until they get annoying or start spamming. Here is how to delete or remove a Facebook friend. Updated for latest Facebook version.
Oh, Facebook… my Facebook. Like most social sites, it is fun to get a huge circle of friends. However, in order to reduce the noise to signal ratio, it is often nice to narrow your friends list.
Sometimes, a friend is just no longer a friend. Here is how to dump them…
New Version:
Several methods exist for removing friends in the latest version of Facebook. If you are on a friend’s profile page, then the unfriend link is at the very bottom of the left sidebar:
If you are looking to unfriend several people at once, it probably best to unfriend through your friends list.
1. Click the Friends link in the left sidebar.
2. Click the Edit Friends button
3. Find the friend you wish to remove, and click the X beside his or her name. Then you will be asked to confirm the deletion.
This is very similar to removing friends in the previous version of Facebook. Those directions are included here for historical purposes:
On Facebook, pull up your friends list.
Click the Remove Friend link
A pop-up pseudo window will open. Confirm that you really want to remove the friend.
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Lormic98 said on March 12, 2009
Does the friend know that they’ve been removed from your list of friends?
Barb said on May 4, 2009
will my deleted friend know that I just dumped them?
terry said on May 7, 2009
i dont see a remove option…did hat disappear when they changed the facebook format?
Ziggy said on May 14, 2009
Click the X to the right hand side of your friend’s name on your friends list page.
Anonymous said on August 5, 2009
Thank you
I been asking my sister but she didnt tell me.
Thanks alot!
I was in big trouble had to remove a buddy
thanks alot
Anonymous said on September 4, 2009
what happens if this doesn’t work?? I’ve been trying to remove someone and it wont do it….can you offer any more help???
Anonymous said on September 6, 2009
You can go to the privacy setting at the bottom of the page and add him/her to your block list.
Anonymous said on October 24, 2009
where do you find this remove frnds 4m list
Anonymous said on November 6, 2009
what happens if I cant see this person in my friends list BUT we can talk to chat (so he is still my friend )..
I have noticed that his photo has been foggy now
Anonymous said on December 7, 2009
What about removing a whole list of people? Is there an option for that? I have “friends” that were added to fill slots in games. I have read they can be removed from my fb wall and I can still play…but deleting 500 ppl one at a time is a royal pain. Help!
Miss P said on December 20, 2009
If you delete a friend, can they request to be your friend later and you can accept them again? Or are they “deleted” forever?
Anonymous said on February 9, 2010
they can request it, you ignore it. YOU can also ask them to be a friuend too
Anonymous said on February 14, 2010
This is bullshit.
There’s NO tab for remove friend.
Why don’t these clowns have the brains to post directions for this?
This has got to be the most needed application.
simon dust said on February 15, 2010
it’s changed since they changed the layout – I did it by going to the page of the friend i wanted to delete then clicking remove as friend from the link bottom-left.
Anonymous said on February 18, 2010
how to cancel awaiting friend confirmation??
simon dust said on February 18, 2010
don’t choose “confirm” (!)
Anonymous said on February 22, 2010
I do not see a place to remove a friend.
Anonymous said on February 22, 2010
I see no where on any page that looks like the example page showing how to remove friends.
N!M!TZ said on February 24, 2010
1. Click on ACCOUNT
2. Edit FRIENDS
3. Left side of the webpage, under LISTS, select FRIENDS
4. Click on the X to the right of the person’s name you want to remove
5. Done
Anonymous said on February 27, 2010
thank you very much there was one guy irritating me now i got rid of him.
Beatriz said on March 10, 2010
Does Facebook announce to all in your list that the friend was removed?
Anonymous said on March 23, 2010
thanx to this note the stranger on facebook i have deleted n i will stop getting annoying yeyeyeye (^ .^)
Ben said on May 14, 2010
I stumbled across an easy way to delete friends quickly on Facebook.
Paste this link into your browser;
http://www.facebook.com/friends/?filter=afp
This will display your friends in a list format. Then simply click on the ‘X’ to the right of their name and a box will pop up to confirm if you want to delete the connection with that friend. I deleted over 200 people in 3-5 minutes.
Hope this helps some of you out
Keng_lavarez said on June 12, 2010
thank you so much!i did it…
NellyLove said on June 14, 2010
that only removes them from network…not ur friends list…so u didn’t really delete them
Shamun said on June 15, 2010
There is no ‘remove’ link
Aslaino said on June 17, 2010
This worked the best for me. Thank you very much!!
Cabby152002 said on June 19, 2010
this information is wrong. you go to account and then edit friends and then delete the friend you want to delete.
Vytis said on June 20, 2010
your saying the right info man thx
Fgljha said on July 5, 2010
I would like to remove my applications from friends I deleted
Dan Theman12 said on July 6, 2010
No, it does not announce to anyone that you removed them. Obviously your friend will eventually figure out that you removed them unless they hardly ever contact you, then they prob won’t notice until the day they want to contact you.
Jae said on July 7, 2010
thanks!
Aurorac15 said on July 9, 2010
This is the new way to do it
1. Click on ACCOUNT
2. Edit FRIENDS
3. Left side of the webpage, under LISTS, select FRIENDS
4. Click on the X to the right of the person’s name you want to remove
5. Done
Criminonology_Queen said on July 12, 2010
remember that you can hide people from the newsfeed too. When I was ill, I spent all day on FB. A couple of people removed me (must have been annoying) but I it kind of hurt a little (e.g. to be the only person in the M.Phil year group dumped etc). I have some really annoying friends but I keep them and hide them, rather than hurt their feelings.
Sorry to be all sensitive about this- YES there are people who need removing. I have done this many times too
Jo said on July 13, 2010
g to account to the right edit friends then all connections then start deleting who ever you want lol
Efbaejfbjh said on July 22, 2010
YAY ^This is the RIGHT answer. I guess fb keeps changing things, but it works right now.
Daniel Rangel said on August 2, 2010
why doesnt my friends list not have a remove friend option?
Daniel Rangel said on August 2, 2010
oh, i got it the ne way, hadnt read that lol……..thnx a lot
Earthdayplans said on August 31, 2010
You are my friend by keeping your association with moral qualities, and not with human thinking anmd self Rom.1:25, Eph.2:2-3; 1Pet.2:21
Cupids1girl said on September 5, 2010
that was before they redid the website, now you can do it that way
Isabel said on October 8, 2010
I want to remove a friend from my list, and I cannot see the option of remove a friend
Gas1 said on October 12, 2010
What about removing my request? Say I send my request to a friend but he/she didnt act on it, after awhile I wanted to remove them (the request)! How?
adnan said on October 21, 2010
how I can delete or remove a zunga poker friend?
Ghje said on December 4, 2010
hi
Rocky said on December 4, 2010
HI dude
Simple way for remove the person of you profile
first, you click on the friend
then scroll and look left side
there will write remove your friend
then click on the remove your friend
Tyler said on December 8, 2010
How do you remove a friend using a I phone?
Nanalizh said on January 3, 2011
How do I block a particular friend’s post?
Dhexmurr said on January 21, 2011
Just open friend and move your cursor to lower left part of your friendslist and find UNFRIEND click it and remove friend.
Janetjpearson said on January 29, 2011
I have a whole slew of maybe friends. How can I delete these and stop them from reappearing. I don’t know to much about Facebook but it’s not for me. Thanks
Robin Gross said on February 2, 2011
Yeah, I have the same problem as Janetjpearson. How do you get rid of “People You May Know” that you really don’t? Each one used to have an “x” next to them that you could select and they’d disappear from your “Maybe” list. Now the “x” isn’t there anymore. This is a real pain…
mariana said on March 11, 2011
If I just delete a person, he can use my first invitation to him to be my friend again? This happend to me. I deleted a person and he just appeared today as my friend again. I received a email like this “he accepted your invitation”, but I did not sent him the invitation again. Please help!!!
Jim said on March 12, 2011
Many of the names that fb suggests (“People you may know”), are not people I want to ask to be friends. Fb’s suggestions are based on some people I friended a while back, and these people skew the new names that are suggested to me.
Short of “unfriending” some of them, I wonder what to do?
Also, it used to be when someone was suggested, you could just “X” so they wouldn’t be suggested any more. Since that feature’s been removed, now, I keep seeing a lot of the people repeating each time I review the suggestions.
Imrankhan said on April 20, 2011
dear thanks for help me to remove rabbish friend….
Rizwan Razaraza said on April 25, 2011
thanks
Jordan said on April 26, 2011
i have the same problem as Jim… my friends mom sent me a bunch of friend suggestions… i dont want them as friends so i tried hiding them and everything… theres no “x” or delete request…. how do i get rid of them?
Jackie said on April 26, 2011
i have the same problem as Jordan… my friends mom sent me a bunch of friend suggestions… i dont want them as friends so i tried hiding them and everything… theres no “x” or delete request…. how do i get rid of them?
Khurram_asif27 said on May 18, 2011
thanxxxx
Dennis Sasabo said on June 1, 2011
This is good option to have, somepeople are borering!!
Cheryl L Herring said on June 14, 2011
Many of the names that fb suggests (“People you may know”), are not
people I want to ask to be friends. Fb’s suggestions are based on some
people I friended a while back, and these people skew the new names that
are suggested to me.
Short of “unfriending” some of them, I wonder what to do?
Also,
it used to be when someone was suggested, you could just “X” so they
wouldn’t be suggested any more. Since that feature’s been removed, now, I
keep seeing a lot of the people repeating each time I review the
suggestions.
Vividvividso@yahoo.in said on June 23, 2011
she is abusive so i want remove her from my friend list.
Iangedwards_104 said on July 15, 2011
ALL of the people suggested as friends by fb are not my idea. Would fb please check my age (75) before suggesting teen-age friends of my grandchildren. Even right-clicking doesn’t show the delete option. Judging by the number of complaints on this subject would fb PLEASE pack it in.
Ian said on July 15, 2011
Ah but ah but. Does this mean I have “invite” the several hundred possibles that fb have lumbered on me and then “X” them – ONE BY ONE! GRRRRRRRR!
Jhasbhenusman said on July 22, 2011
it is effective?
darrell said on October 25, 2011
i been reading how to delete people from F/B and each way i read on here takes me to the same place i have been and they r no X beside any of the names how to delete
Moune said on November 27, 2011
On a pc I have to hover with the mouse in the upper right-hand corner of”popple you may know” to make the faint X appear and then click on it. However I don’t have that option on my samsung android phone. Bummer…
thanseer said on December 26, 2011
thanks
bulma brief said on January 2, 2012
thanks for help…….
john said on January 28, 2012
i deleted people on friends list and i still get requests in games such as farmville ,castville how do i get somone totlly off everything so there is no contact???? thanks