# How do I de-friend on FB??

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-de-friend-on-fb/634175>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 9, 2012, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-de-friend-on-fb/634175 "2012-09-09T09:51:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-de-friend-on-fb/634175/1 "2012-09-09T09:51:00Z")

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I’m not much of a FaceBook person, only joining up by necessity to keep in contact with my kids when they were overseas. Since then, I’ve accumulated a few ‘friends’ who do nothing but fill my pages with fucken glurge.

How do I delete these ‘friends’??

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**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-de-friend-on-fb/634175/2 "2012-09-09T10:00:38Z")

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Go to the “friend’s” profile page. Somewhere in the top right there’s a box that says “Friend” with a tick/check sign. Hover your mouse over that and click “Unfriend”. You can also just turn off “Show in news feed” so you don’t have to see their fucken splurge.

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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-de-friend-on-fb/634175/3 "2012-09-09T20:14:21Z")

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Oh thank you SO much **Bozuit.** You’re a hero!

Wanna be my friend? 😃

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**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-de-friend-on-fb/634175/4 "2012-09-09T20:19:01Z")

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Not if you’re going to mercilessly cull me from your list. I lost two Facebook friends the other day. On my birthday.

☹