How to Remove Friends from Facebook?

Facebook is one of the most widely used social media platforms that helps you to connect to friends, family as well as strangers. You can send friend requests to people who you want to add as Facebook friends. Others too can do the same and when the other party accepts the request, you two become friends on Facebook. But what do you do when you want to remove friends from Facebook?

You might want to remove friends from Facebook because you want your personal life to be limited to only a certain amount of people or because you added someone mistakenly or you do not talk to that person anymore and other various reasons. As easy as adding a friend on Facebook is, removing them can be quite confusing to some people.

If you too are facing confusion and are having problems doing so, worry no more because, in this article, you will learn how to remove friends from Facebook easily.

How to Remove Friends from Facebook?

Somedays, you might just get a little too tired of seeing your Facebook friends post a lot unnecessarily or, receive unlimited calls and texts from strangers that somehow became your Facebook friends. Well, you can unfriend them easily and make those problems go away. You can remove friends from Facebook by:

1. Using Traditional Manner

2. Removing Multiple Friends

1. Using Traditional Manner

The traditional manner of removing someone as a Facebook friend is going to their profile individually and unfriending them. To do so, follow the given steps:

1. Open Facebook and log into your account.

2. On the search bar, search for the person you want to unfriend.

3. Select their name and open their profile.

4. Click on the ‘Friends‘ icon.

5. Choose ‘Unfriend’ from the list.

6. Click on ‘Confirm’ to remove them as your friend.

You two are now no longer friends on Facebook. Hence, in this way, you can remove friends from Facebook using the traditional manner via both phones and your computers.

2. Removing Multiple Friends

To remove multiple friends all at once, you will have to do so by surfing your profile and your friend list. To do so, follow the given steps:

1. Open Facebook and log into your account.

2. Click on your ‘Profile icon’.

3. Go to your ‘Profile’.

4. Select the ‘Friends’ option.

5. A list of your friends will appear. Go to the names you wish to remove.

6. Click on the ‘Three dots’ icon beside the name of person who you want to remove as a friend.

7. Select ‘Unfriend’ option.

8. Click on ‘Confirm’ to verify.

By doing this, you can remove multiple friends at once using a single page and without having to go to each of their profiles again and again.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Can I remove all my Facebook friends at once?

Yes, you can use the chrome Friend Remover extension. You can add that extension and select and remove all your Facebook friends at once. But, this extension is not very safe as your social ID and information may be at stake.

How to block someone on Facebook?

If you are looking to remove some from Facebook because they are bothering you very much, disturbing your peace, or harassing you in any manner, it is recommended that you block them instead. Blocking them will completely prevent them from viewing your account in any manner or contacting you through Facebook.  To block someone, open their Profile>Three dots>Block. Select confirm to block them.

If you only want a break from them, you can follow the same steps and choose the ‘Take a Break’ option instead of hitting confirm.

You can also mute someone on Facebook in order for them to stop disturbing you time and again.

Conclusion

Hence, by using the steps mentioned above in the article, you can now easily remove friends from Facebook. To just stop seeing their posts, unfollow them. If they are bothering you too much, either take a break from them or block them on Facebook.

Hope this article was helpful and cleared your doubts. Feel free to leave comments in case of any queries.