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How to Invite ALL Facebook Friends to a Group, Event or Page

by John P.

I set up a couple of groups on Facebook – our Wealth Nation group (PLEASE JOIN!) and the Stop the Farmville Madness!!! group – and wanted to invite all my friends, but it would have taken an eternity because for some strange reason Facebook doesn’t allow you to “select all” friends when sending an invite. I mean, they’ll let you do it… but only if you click one at a time! Uugh.

Well anyway I went on a little search and found that you could cheat the Facebook system by inserting a little javascript to make it happen! Here is how to do it:


  1. Go to your Facebook Event, Facebook Group or Facebook page and click “Invite People”.
  2. Once the page has loaded you should see all of your friends, but they are not selected.
  3. At this point, copy and paste the javascript code below into your Web browser’s address bar, then hit “Enter”.
  4. If all goes well, it selects all of your friends!
  5. IMPORTANT: NOW YOU MUST WAIT!!! If you have a lot of Facebook friends, you have to leave that window open for a long time so it sends all of the invitations! I have about 1,400 and it took like 15-20 minutes to send all of the invitations. The Invite window will close when its done. So exercise patience!!!!!!!!!!

javascript:elms=document.getElementById('friends').getElementsByTagName('li');for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === 'object'){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

If that first method doesn’t work for you give this a try:

Right click the “friend box” and open it in a new tab…
Then paste this ==> javascript: fs.select_all()



Finally, there is now a GreaseMonkey script for Firefox to Invite All Facebook Friends if you want to try that as well..

Oh, and by the way, if you found this helpful please tweet it or share it on Facebook to help others find it too. The more people who share it, the more people it helps! It takes some time for all of the Facebook invites to be sent. They go into a queue. So if you saw them all get selected, just be patient. The messages WILL get delivered over the next 24 hours or so.

UPDATE

If none of that is working for you, try the following:
javascript:function check_all_in_document(doc){var c=new Array();c=doc.getElementsByTagName('input');for(var i=0;i<c.length;i++){if(c[i].type=='checkbox'){c[i].click();}}}check_all_in_document(window.document);for(var j=0;j<window.frames.length;j++){check_all_in_document(window.frames[j].document);}



WordCamp Dallas 2009: Giovanni Gallucci – Top 10 Extreme Social Media Hacks

August 10, 2009

Giovanni Gallucci gave a fantastic lecture at WordCamp Dallas 2009 on the Top 10 Extreme Social Media Hacks. It was an action packed 45 minutes with more suggestions coming at the attendees than most could take notes for. Luckily we’ve got the whole thing captured on video, so we can catch up on everything missed. [...]

Twitter Has Been Down for 2.5 Hours, Will We Survive?

August 6, 2009
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So, for those of you who don’t know it, the world’s most popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter has been completely down for over two and a half hours so far today due to a Denial of Service attack. Now, Twitter goes down pretty regularly. It’s difficult to scale up this rapidly for any business. But this [...]

Awesome New Thoof Videos

September 30, 2007
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I previously mentioned the new news site Thoof, and I know several folks checked it out. So I just had to share these new videos done in the Apple vs. PC style, but this time comparing Digg and Thoof. The degree of flexibility and customization – not to mention simplicity of use – between traditional [...]

White Hat Digging: 3 Myths, Tips and Tricks for Understanding and Submitting to Digg.com

September 20, 2007
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By Guest Star (and responsible Power-Digger): SuxMonkey of AllSux.com

The New Thoof – Smartest Site On The Web

July 14, 2007
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Most people surf the Web unaware that an army of Artificial Intelligence engines are watching your every move in an effort to match interests with commercial messaging. Well, the bad news is… they are. The good news is that a brand new Web site called Thoof is going to use an even better version of [...]