Girl Friday found a super-keen blog post on how to “Select All” of your Facebook friends using a string of code, rather than relying on Facebook’s “list” option. (If you have your Friends in a “list” category, you can send invites to them in a block by list name. But, if you’re like Girl Friday, who started gathering Friends BEFORE the List tool and doesn’t have time now to go thru every single one of them and assign them a List, this is not a good solution.). BTW, Facebook…you could think of these things ahead of time, y’know? Just sayin’!!!
SO ANYWAY…’cause GF is always in a hurry and looking for the quick way out, she tried the following solution that worked like a charm:
1. Create your Invite
2. When you get to the “Invite Friends” part of the Invite, it opens a Window with all your Friends listed. Don’t click on any of your Friends! Instead, Copy and Paste the following bit of code into the URL box at the top of the page (Yes, you want to Paste OVER the URL address that is showing):
javascript:elms=document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘li’);for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === ‘object’){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}
3. After you’ve pasted that code string into your URL box, left click your mouse in the URL box (anywhere is fine) and hit Enter.
4. BE PATIENT!! If you have several hundreds (or over a thousand) Friends, it will take a minute or two (literally). Don’t touch anything, let it do it’s thing, go get a Diet Tab and a Slim Jim and take a break fer gosh sakes already!
5. When it’s finished processing, you will see ALL of your Friends highlighted in the Friends box. Now, just click “Invite” or “Send” and you’re done. You DID it!! I KNEW you could!! See…those strings of code are not evil…just ugly!! So don’t be afraid!
So NIFTY! how it works, huh?!
Click here for the link to the original blog posting.
Now you go and have yourself a Sunshiney day, Pumpkin!
You are actually quite brilliant at what you do, so why the heck should you be all knowledgeable about Facebook and all this techie stuff? Fact is, you shouldn’t, cause that’s my job!! And now that I have your attention, there is an important Public Service Announcement that I would like to pass on to you from an article Girl Friday saw in the New York Times the other day. And because I truly care about you and your marketing needs (you know I do! there’s nothin’ but love here, baby-boo!), I pass it on to you.
Cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies this month (January 2010), so guess what?? YOU may be the lucky recipient of sales calls AND in many cases, you even get to PAY for that unwanted, unsolicited, annoying call, depending on your cell phone plan!! Ain’t technology grand?