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Can I unfriend someone from Facebook on my iPhone?

I only use Facebook from my Apple iPhone and have no complaints. Except one. I can't unfriend people who I realize I don't want to be connected to on the site. Am I right, or is there a way to unfriend a Facebook friend within the iPhone app?

Question answered on July 25, 2011 at 10:31 AM :: Comments to date: 3

On Facebook, how can I see updates from a friend list?

Category: Facebook Help

I'm confused about the purpose of lists on Facebook. Used to be that there was a link on the left side that would let me see news updates just from people on a given list, like "work" or "frat bros" or similar, but now the lists are still available to organize people on Facebook, but there doesn't seem to be any way to limit my news feed to just them? WTH??

Question answered on February 7, 2011 at 07:58 AM :: Comments to date: 2

How do I Actually Delete Facebook Friend Requests?

Category: Facebook Help

Ever since Facebook decided that I can't "delete" friend requests, just defer the decision until another time, I have been accumulating a lot of these unfriended friends. Mostly it's spammers, but it's also friends of my ex that I just don't want to know about. My question: in the new Facebook, how do I actually *delete* friend requests permanently??

Question answered on October 29, 2010 at 07:36 AM :: Comments to date: 3

Facebook Groups: how do I leave a Facebook Group?

Category: Facebook Help

Facebook has changed things yet again and now there are Facebook Groups that people can apparently just create and add me to without my permission. Not good. Now my email box overfloweth and my notifications are all about those groups, not my friends. I want out. What are my options?

Question answered on October 7, 2010 at 07:50 AM :: Comments to date: 5

How can I limit Facebook status updates to certain friends?

Category: Facebook Help

In a note over on your Ask Dave Taylor Facebook fan page, you said "you can mark your updates as only accessible by a subset of your Facebook friends". Dave, How is that possible?

Question answered on September 22, 2010 at 08:23 AM :: Comments to date: 1

How do I unfriend someone who sends me annoying Facebook events?

Category: Facebook Help

I have a ton of friends on Facebook, and it's generally pretty cool, but there are two or three people who keep inviting me to their MLM marketing events and I not only don't want to go, I don't want to see their invitations any more, nor any other communications from them. I can't "hide" them as I do with status updates, so what's my option?

Question answered on June 29, 2010 at 08:46 AM :: Comments to date: 2

How do I delete a friend list on Facebook?

Category: Facebook Help

How do I delete different list that were created for my friends? Example: my daughters friends, a list was created that says "my crazy step-daughters". How do I go about deleting something like that? There are more list, this is just an example and no, there are no names/friends in these extra list either.

Question answered on June 14, 2010 at 08:43 AM :: Comments to date: 2

How do I let my friend see my Facebook status updates?

Category: Facebook Help

I hid my status updates on facebook from a friend, but I'm unsure about how to change that if I want them to see them?

Question answered on April 19, 2010 at 08:39 AM :: Comments to date: 2

How do I send a friend request in Facebook? (updated)

Category: Facebook Help

I read through your article on how to friend someone on Facebook, but what you list is out of date and needs to be rewritten for the latest interface. There isn't a Friends menu and I can't figure out how to invite friends. How do you invite new people to Facebook via their email address like we used to be able to do?

Question answered on March 19, 2010 at 08:04 AM :: Comments to date: 3

How do I unfriend someone on Faceboook? (updated)

Category: Facebook Help

I read your earlier article on how to unfriend someone on Facebook, but my Facebook interface doesn't look at all like yours. I think your stuff's just out of date, Dave. Can you update this for the new Facebook 2.0 (2010?) interface? Thanks!

Question answered on March 15, 2010 at 08:57 AM :: Comments to date: 3

How do I delete a Facebook list?

Category: Facebook Help

Okay, I read your article about how to create Facebook lists and had lots of fun experimenting, but now I have too many lists and want to clean things up. So, um, how do I delete a Facebook list?

Question answered on December 7, 2009 at 08:24 AM :: Comments to date: 1

Facebook lists, what are they and how do I create them?

Category: Facebook Help

Now that I have over a hundred friends on Facebook, I'm kind of drowning in the never-ending flow of live updates from them all. A social media guru pal of mine told me that I should be using facebook lists, but I've no idea what they are. Dave, help! What's a Facebook list and how do I create one?

Question answered on December 5, 2009 at 08:57 AM :: Comments to date: 0

How to find your friends on Facebook with the Facebook Friend Finder

Category: Facebook Help

I've just started really getting into Facebook and want to grow my circle of online friends there. From talking with other people, it's definitely a site that's more fun with lots of friends. But how do I find them short of spamming everyone I know with an invitation?

Question answered on November 28, 2008 at 08:41 AM :: Comments to date: 13

How do I unfriend someone on Facebook?

Category: Facebook Help

I have a lot of friends on Facebook. A lot. But there are a couple that are just weird and I have second thoughts now about being friends with them. How do I remove my friendship or "unfriend" them on Facebook?

Question answered on October 10, 2008 at 08:44 AM :: Comments to date: 3

How do I remove a Facebook friend or connection?

Category: Facebook Help

Not to sound like I'm becoming antisocial, but a woman who's on my friends list on Facebook turns out to be quite the kind of person I don't like to associate with. Can't say more than that, but I need to "defriend" her (unfriend her?) How do I do that??

Question answered on October 29, 2007 at 07:37 AM :: Comments to date: 83




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