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How do I delete a friend from MySpace?

I saw you wrote a piece about how to delete a comment from someone you didn't like on MySpace, but that's not the problem I have. I'm trying to figure out how to delete someone from my friend list itself as I don't want everyone to think I'm still friends with this particular girl. Can you help me out, Dave?

Dave's Answer:

I think I can help you out, actually. As I said in my earlier article on How do I delete MySpace Comments?, MySpace makes it pretty darn easy to ensure that your list of friends, your comments, and related, are all in sync with your life.

To delete someone from your friends list, log in to your MySpace account and scroll down to your friends list. You'll see it looks like this:

No surprise here, click on Edit Friends and you'll see a list of your friends. You need to find the friend you want to delete on the list, check the little box to the left of their picture, then scroll down to the bottom of the page, where you'll see the key button:

Make sure you've only checked the picture/name of the person you want to remove, then click on the Delete Selected button.

Be careful as there's no confirmation dialog or intermediate page. You click the button, they're gone, *poof*, without even a wisp of smoke.

Hope you can delete this girl from your friends list and make some new friends instead. :-)

Finally, if you'd like to connect with me via MySpace, that'd be great! Check out my own MySpace Profile. Also, since you are just learning about MySpace, you might well be interested in my MySpace Help area too.

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Comments

Hello!
Myspace has been deleted 5 times now by someone.
I would really like to get them back.
If you know how to delete someones myspace can you plz tell me?

Posted by: deskie at April 28, 2007 4:39 PM

how do i delete my account if i forgot my email address?

Posted by: jean at May 10, 2007 8:56 AM

i got this (Your account has been phished)and i know i have to change my password but every time i go to change it i dont see the letters that im suppose to write after writing my new password there s just nothing i can see so do u have an idea wat i should do i even try to get a new one and i dont see the letters still

Posted by: sonic at July 2, 2007 10:38 PM

i want to see if i can get help on how to delete my mysapce. but i dont know the password to that email. what to do? can some one help please

Posted by: mari at August 11, 2007 8:05 PM

Thanks so much Dave though i'm not the one who raised this question.. still thank you for your patient help.
Thank you

Posted by: Mengchi at August 21, 2007 2:30 AM

i want ot know how to delete someones myspace page cause i dont want my bf to have to talk to other girls behind my back

Posted by: nakita ray at September 10, 2007 8:56 PM

i want to delete one of my friends from myspace..i know how to do it..but well they know your deleted them?

Posted by: shavon at December 28, 2007 2:56 PM

Thatz old 1.....

we want a new way 2 do iT PLezzz

Posted by: nj at March 30, 2008 9:33 AM

can you delete me from myspace .thank you.

Posted by: marcus harris at May 15, 2008 7:40 PM

I think this is out of date information as of this date.

Posted by: Todd at July 18, 2008 9:51 AM

til i found this ssite. couldnt of done it without ya dave. ty!

Posted by: lance at August 5, 2008 7:03 AM

How do I delete my myspace latino so that I could put it in english?

Posted by: Stacie Smith at November 8, 2008 10:37 PM

is there any way that i can block one of my friends from added my other friends to her friends please help me

Posted by: pd at December 19, 2008 10:17 AM

Want to delete a friend on my space i logged into my account and when i scrolled down there was nothing about edit friends

Posted by: Audette at February 20, 2009 10:47 AM

In my case, I have 10000 friends and its not easy to delate a friend because you have to search for him and go true all of your friends untill you actually find him, then you can delate him....

Is there any other ways to delate a friend without having to go true all the 10000 friends?

Posted by: Hufschmid at March 2, 2009 10:45 AM

how to get someone off of your freinds on myspace

Posted by: nick at March 3, 2009 2:58 PM

my myspace wont let me delete it. it never sends me the confirmation email. help!

Posted by: helen at March 5, 2009 9:10 PM

Thank u so much the person i deleted is the person i can't stand it all cuz u helped me with your website it is cuz of u i deleted my former friendi did not kno how to do it but your website helped me alot thank so much

Posted by: Shante at June 28, 2009 8:07 PM

thanks it work now i will be more care ful fur who i chose

Posted by: aldair at July 19, 2009 10:40 AM

thank you this helped a lot :]

Posted by: dark-pixie at September 3, 2009 11:19 AM

in myspace 2.0 i am unable to find any sort of "Edit" option / there is a "Delete" option - but no way to select prior to hitting that / how would i know that it won't just Delete ALL my friends ? / what a totally stupid design / so : HOW DELETE a friend ?

Posted by: Michael at October 1, 2009 5:54 PM

I have a lot to say, but ...

I have a lot to say, and questions of my own for that matter, but most of all I'd like to say thank you for all your efforts on this Web site by buying you a chai!

I do have a comment, now that you mention it!