Greetings,
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with Christ in it. Though Jesus was not born in December, this is a special season to let the world know of His love for us.
As I was praying about 2012, one of the things I felt I must do was to change the way I use Facebook.
I got on Facebook in 2007 as a means of networking for the work that I did then. It then grew to become a large network of friends, and later became an extension of my ministry.
The latter will continue as such, but I’m finding it more difficult to maintain an online network of friends because of my increasing ministerial responsibilities. After much prayer and deliberation, I managed to delete over a 1000 friends. I am simply unable to find the time to be an online friend.
Apart from the “Pages” I administer , and the “Bible Study” group (links below), I am limiting my online presence and and I no longer take personal friend requests for now.
When I am online on Facebook, we can chat if you are in this Bible Study group. You can always get in touch with me through Recon Center’s contact page.
Links to pages that I administrate on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ReconCenter
https://www.facebook.com/JohnKodiyil
Link to the Bible Study group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/reconcenter/
I wish to share a problem I faced when I tried to delete friends on Facebook and how I managed to solve it.
It was not very difficult to delete friends from Facebook before, but the way Facebook it set up now, each friend has to be deleted one by one, with a page refresh after every delete. This was way too much work, and I did not want to spend the rest of the year doing that.
So in my search for a solution I found a Greasemonkey script. Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to HTML web page content. The script called “FacebookDeletes” basically “Bulk deletes friends on facebook”, or that is what it is supposed to do.
I had activated Timeline on Facebook, and therefore this script would not work for me. I am not going to rant on Timeline, but I do not like that fact that I do not have an option to turn it off – c’est la vie.
After some more Googling I found that the timeline will not work on older browsers, especially Internet Explorer 7. I did not have IE7.
Then I found a FireFox addon called “User Agent Switcher”. The User Agent Switcher extension adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of a browser. In other words, you can make your browser pretend to be an older browser or in my case an older different browser.
With the above combination, I had my breakfast while the script emptied my account of friends. :)
If you ever need to do this here are the steps again,
- Install greasemonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/)
- Install useragent Switcher (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/)
- Install FacebookDeletes (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43404)
- Go to http://www.facebook.com/friends/edit/ ( FB will load a different page, but just scroll down)
- Click the down arrow to the left of ‘facebook delete friends’
- Tick people whom you don’t want to delete.
- Click the “Highlight” button to test it out if you want to be confident before doing the actual delete. It will only delete users on the current page. If you have lots of friends, go to the bottom of the page to load them first.
Well that’s about it from me for now, oh, by the way, you own an android phone, you should watch this video what they reveal about Carrier IQ – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvnPxl2DrQ4 – trust me, it will be worth your time :)
So, have a safe blessed holiday with family, and may the Lord bless you with a fruitful 2012.
with love in Jesus,
John Kodiyil