# Facebook - "cleaning up friends list" - any way to do this in one fell swoop? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 16, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-cleaning-up-friends-list-any-way-to-do-this-in-one-fell-swoop/589284 "2011-07-16T20:59:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-cleaning-up-friends-list-any-way-to-do-this-in-one-fell-swoop/589284/1 "2011-07-16T20:59:23Z")
Looking to delete about 100 of the 400 people on my “Friends” list, due to various reasons (the biggest of which is that I just don’t have any interaction with them anymore). Any way to do this “economically”, or do you need to click on every single person’s page, and de-friend them? ---
**Author:** ![Optimistique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Optimistique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Optimistique)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-cleaning-up-friends-list-any-way-to-do-this-in-one-fell-swoop/589284/2 "2011-07-16T21:33:09Z")
No, you don’t have to go to each page. Click on account, then “edit friends”, there’s a little X by each person that will remove them. As far as I know, that’s the easiest way to do it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-cleaning-up-friends-list-any-way-to-do-this-in-one-fell-swoop/589284/3 "2011-07-16T21:55:14Z")
With your help, I figured this out - thanks very much! {/thread}