FB might be the largest social networking site today, but it has got a few flaws. A lot of changes made by FB seem to cause problems for the users. First the ticker and then the ability of friends to add you to groups with friends to add you to groups without your permission. Then there's a problem regarding deactivated and deleted profiles in your friend list. Since the changes made, people started to notice old profiles, along with the new ones, that had been deactivated in their friend list. Now this is not a problem, but it clutters up your list and inflates your number of friends. Now, you cna easily find and delete these profiles from your list and clear up the mess.
Detecting Deactivated Profiles
First thing to remove useless profiles is to detect if you have any of them in your friend list. So how do you know you have these deactivated profiles in your account? Well, the process is pretty simple. Go to your profile, and note down the total number of friends you have. This will show you the total number of people in your friends list, including those who have deleted or deactivated their profiles. This is where the problem is, because it should only display the number of active profile. Hence, FB's metrics are flawed.
Now, go to https://www.facebook.com/me/friends, and count the total number of profiles displayed there. This number will most likely be lesser than the previos one.
The reason for this : Suppose you have 100 friends, and someone added you on FB. So your total count becomes 101. sometime later, he decides to deactivate his FB profile. Now your couunt should get back to 100, but it doesn't. It'll be 101, with a deactivated profile.
Removing Deactivated Profiles
You can easily remove the ghost profiles from your list manually. If you start searching on FB with a letter, FB will show you your friends that have that letter in their names. For example, type in a letter 's' and you will see yours friends who has 's' in their name.
Now, you can easily recognize the de-activated profile from the default silhouettes instead of profile pictures. You might also see silhouettes in your friend list. If those silhouettes are active profiles, then you will see a pop-up when hovering over them. Otherwise, they're just deactivated profiles that you choose to delete. Click on them, and you'll get a message saying that the profile has been deleted or deactivated. There's an option to un-friend that profile. Now, you're done. Click on unfriend.
Have fun....:D
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Detecting Deactivated Profiles
First thing to remove useless profiles is to detect if you have any of them in your friend list. So how do you know you have these deactivated profiles in your account? Well, the process is pretty simple. Go to your profile, and note down the total number of friends you have. This will show you the total number of people in your friends list, including those who have deleted or deactivated their profiles. This is where the problem is, because it should only display the number of active profile. Hence, FB's metrics are flawed.
Now, go to https://www.facebook.com/me/friends, and count the total number of profiles displayed there. This number will most likely be lesser than the previos one.
The reason for this : Suppose you have 100 friends, and someone added you on FB. So your total count becomes 101. sometime later, he decides to deactivate his FB profile. Now your couunt should get back to 100, but it doesn't. It'll be 101, with a deactivated profile.
Removing Deactivated Profiles
You can easily remove the ghost profiles from your list manually. If you start searching on FB with a letter, FB will show you your friends that have that letter in their names. For example, type in a letter 's' and you will see yours friends who has 's' in their name.
Now, you can easily recognize the de-activated profile from the default silhouettes instead of profile pictures. You might also see silhouettes in your friend list. If those silhouettes are active profiles, then you will see a pop-up when hovering over them. Otherwise, they're just deactivated profiles that you choose to delete. Click on them, and you'll get a message saying that the profile has been deleted or deactivated. There's an option to un-friend that profile. Now, you're done. Click on unfriend.
Have fun....:D
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