I set up a couple of groups on Facebook – our FunGun Group (PLEASE JOIN!) – 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 system by inserting a little javascript to make it happen! Here is how to do it:
- Go to your Event, Group or page and click “Invite People”.
- Once the page has loaded you should see all of your friends, but they are not selected.
- At this point, copy and paste the javascript code below into your Web browser’s address bar, then hit “Enter”.
- If all goes well, it selects all of your friends!
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…Finally, there is now a Chrome extension called Facebook Invite All, so if you are using the Chrome browser you can pick that up and it will add the ability to invite all your friends – and there is a GreaseMonkey script for Firefox to Invite All Friends if you want to try that as well..
Then paste this ==> javascript: fs.select_all()
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!
UPDATE: I just tried it on 2/11/2010. It does work. ALSO… It takes some time for all of the 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.
Thanks to Hakon for originally sharing this tip. It was a lifesaver!
