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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Reader Comments To Date: 28

deskie said, on April 28, 2007 4:39 PM:

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?

jean said, on May 10, 2007 8:56 AM:

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

sonic said, on July 2, 2007 10:38 PM:

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

mari said, on August 11, 2007 8:05 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

Mengchi said, on August 21, 2007 2:30 AM:

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

nakita ray said, on September 10, 2007 8:56 PM:

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

shavon said, on December 28, 2007 2:56 PM:

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

nj said, on March 30, 2008 9:33 AM:

Thatz old 1.....

we want a new way 2 do iT PLezzz

marcus harris said, on May 15, 2008 7:40 PM:

can you delete me from myspace .thank you.

Todd said, on July 18, 2008 9:51 AM:

I think this is out of date information as of this date.

lance said, on August 5, 2008 7:03 AM:

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

Stacie Smith said, on November 8, 2008 10:37 PM:

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

pd said, on December 19, 2008 10:17 AM:

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

Audette said, on February 20, 2009 10:47 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

Hufschmid said, on March 2, 2009 10:45 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?

nick said, on March 3, 2009 2:58 PM:

how to get someone off of your freinds on myspace

helen said, on March 5, 2009 9:10 PM:

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

Shante said, on June 28, 2009 8:07 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

aldair said, on July 19, 2009 10:40 AM:

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

dark-pixie said, on September 3, 2009 11:19 AM:

thank you this helped a lot :]

Michael said, on October 1, 2009 5:54 PM:

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 ?

carig phillips said, on November 23, 2009 12:43 PM:

how do you remove a friend on myspace that has there box made not to delete or block them and where would you find the codes to over ride it

Jennifer said, on December 26, 2009 12:09 AM:

I can't see the edit friends. I want to delete this person who keeps stalking me!

Nia said, on March 10, 2010 3:40 PM:

how do i remove my friends list from my myspace profile

adriana gonzalez said, on April 6, 2010 5:02 PM:

ok first log on then go to friends and at da right corner it will say view friends, delete friends,then change tops nd go on delete friends

Tim Bennett said, on June 28, 2010 12:57 AM:

Don't see it, can't delete. please give accurate information or at least more specific because this information failed to help me in any way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Louise Davis said, on November 15, 2011 11:06 AM:

i have photo's on my space,can i transfer those photos to my facebook account I also know who is hacking into my account it is my neice Kelly Curry and i don't like this one bit. I DON'T WANT TO SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT MYSELF BECAUSE OF HER.

Louise Davis said, on November 15, 2011 11:17 AM:

I WILL NOT BE CHANGING MY PASSWORD. CAN YOU STOP OTHER PEOPLE FROM CHANGING IT. AND ACCESSING MY ACCOUNT, please quit trying to get me to share more information. I have shared all that I want to share.

I do have a lot to say, and questions of my own for that matter, but first I'd like to say thank you, Dave, for all your helpful information by buying you a cup of coffee!

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

How do I delete a friend from MySpace?

Reader Comments To Date: 28

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

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