Facebook has recently allowed us to use keyboard shortcuts instead of mouse clicks on their site. There are several of them that save time when you’re doing repetitive things, too.

We have started to delete all of our friends on one of our simulated profiles. For some reason, hundreds of people sent us friend requests but, since that person doesn’t really exist, we’ve decided to delete them all. Without a keyboard shortcut, this would take a long time. Here’s how to speed things up.

1. Go to your friend list.

2. Click on the words ‘friends’ on any profile then press ‘u’ twice and hit enter. Poof! The friend is gone. Click, u, u, enter. Zapped.

Want to send a message? If you’re using Chrome on a PC, simply press the ALT key and the letter ‘m’.

Some of the shortcuts simply didn’t work for us but here is a list of all of them: (Note that these are for Google Chrome on a PC.)

Alt + 1 – take you to the main Facebook page, not your Timeline.

Alt + 2 – Should bring up your timeline but we couldn’t get it to work for some reason.

Alt + 3 – Add friends page. Not much use unless you’re actively adding friends.

Alt + 4 – Your list of messages.

Alt + 5 – All of your notifications on one page.

Alt + 6 – Account settings.

Alt + 7 – This is supposed to zip you to your privacy settings but didn’t work for us.

Alt + 8 – This brings up Faceook’s very own Facebook page. Yes, they have one.

Alt + 9 – Shows you the very boring Facebook Terms and Policies

Alt + m – Allows you to write a message instantly. The message window floats in the middle of the page you are on.

 

Thanks for reading! Let us know if you find any cool shortcuts that our readers might be interesting in hearing about.