Oct122012

How do I remove “fake friends” on Facebook?

wellaware asks:

I have a couple hundred “friends” that have NO “Unfriend” buttons on them. When browsing through your friends the names appear in blue and are a hyperlink. Several of these “friends names’ titles are in black and have no hyper-link. When I click on these “fake friends” It just opens a new tab duplicating the page I am on currently. When I click on the “about” button under a “fake friend” name, it opens a new tab that says “page not found”! I realize some of these friends could have deleted their account, but how do I remove them? I am showing 5200+ friends (which is above the 5000 friend limit on FB and I have 350+ people in my friend request que w/about 30 I would like to add immediately, because they ARE personal friends of mine. The regular FB channel of “Unfriending does NOT work to remove these people I have mentioned. Does ANYONE know how I can accomplish this? Thanks for any help.


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Dimal Chandrasiri

October 12, 2012

I think these friends are listed as your friends but the system is limiting you only to keep them but not to interact. try removing some friends with the remove link working then try to remove those friends you have mentioned. or else, I think most of the friends you are talking have left FB.

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Edwin Williams

October 12, 2012

If someone on your Friends List deleted their account they are normally deleted from your Friends List. I’d email the Facebook team and see if they can help you personally. Good Luck!

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Jahnezzy Eltime

October 12, 2012

just block em

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stephania ray

October 12, 2012

delete and block them. click on their name and where it says setting. click block and or delete.

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Alex Perkins

October 14, 2012

Block and delete

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Dawud Mehmood

October 16, 2012

go to their time line and where it has a tick saying friend click on it then from the drop down menu click unfriend

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ma punnakkadan

October 19, 2012

try to use tooption `BLOCK` from your profile and select the guy u want to block .

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kumar raja

October 24, 2012

u can block and there is an option “unfriend” to delete them

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Stanimir Mihov

October 24, 2012

Unsubscribe can be an option

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Nikhil Chandak

October 25, 2012

unfriend them
& then block them

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Rayon Blend

October 27, 2012

Block and delte

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Vedavyas Paruchuri

April 7, 2013

Go to your friends list on fb profile and click unfriend them