Suggest Facebook Fan Page To All Friends
Posted by in Tips And Tricks April 3, 2011 16 Comments

After create a Facebook Fan Page or Setup an Application on Facebook, you may think about how to let your friends know about it. Suggest to Friends is a Facebook function will help to do that.

It’s a simple and useful tool but it’s just the page administrators who the only people want to use the tool. For some reason, Facebook stopped the function to all the fans page.

Steps below will show you how to use this tool – with a nice trick :)

1. Go to a page, make sure you’re admin of the page.

2. On Get Started page, click on the Suggest to Friends button.

Facebook Suggest to Friends

Facebook Suggest to Friends

3. A Facebook box with all your friends will come up.

Facebook  Suggest to Friends Box

Facebook Suggest to Friends Box

4. Select on friends you would like to invite.

And here the trick I mentioned above.

If you have lot of friends, let’s say: 5000 friends, it will take few hours just for selecting and clicking. Below is a trick which will automatically select all your friends.

I assume that you’re viewing your Fan page on Firefox.

4.1 Right-click on the box => This Frame => Open Frame in New Tab

Open Facebook Suggest to Friends on new tab

Open Facebook Suggest to Friends on new tab

4.2 Copy the Javascript code below and Paste on the Address bar then press Enter.

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

Facebook Send Invitations

It automatically selects all your friend in the box.

Note: if you have lot of friends, it may takes long time to do the selection.

4.3 Click on Send Recommendations button.

You also have to wait to sends invitations to your friends. The more friends you have, the longer will take.

That’s all, you’re done and wait for new fans on your page :)

Hoan Huynh is the founder and head of 4rapiddev.com. Reach him at hoan@4rapiddev.com
  • Christian

    this method does not work anymore, Facebook setup a redirect when viewing any frames on a different tab!!

    sucks!!

    any work around?

    • hoanhuynh

      You’re right, it doesn’t work anymore :(
      Will try to find another solution and get back to you.

  • http://thedotmack.com Alex N

    Use firebug, edit the frame’s HTML and add this to the source:

    Select All

    Gotta get into that frame… :)

  • http://thedotmack.com Alex N

    Here.. it parsed it Seorry…

    Select All

  • http://thedotmack.com Alex N

    Ugggghhh

    Select All

  • http://thedotmack.com Alex N

    It keeps parsing my link code. Oh well…

    • hoanhuynh

      I don’t understand what you mean Alex. Please explain more.

    • hoanhuynh

      Did you mean:

      <a href="elms=document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘li’);for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === ‘object’){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}" rel="nofollow">Select All</a>

      • admin

        Hi Hoan, anyway to fix or any solution?

  • tamaratamara

    Hi There,
    Thanks for this – but the code is no longer working. Anyone have a fix??
    Cheers!

  • http://nicedl.org/ nicedl

    So it’s not working anymore, isn’t it?

  • http://www.buzztechbd.com Most sumona

    I goana need this solution for staying our online business, who can give me this solution?

  • http://www.buzztechbd.com Most sumona

    If any one can me this solution he is my best friend

  • http://thehiphopdemocrat.com Todd

    Man, just my luck it stops working days after i need this… smh

  • http://jeweledbyalyssa.wordpress.com alyssalnewman@gmail.com

    for some reason, after i sent mine out, none of my friends actually received the “suggestion.” where would this appear on their facebook and why didn’t it work?

  • http://www.facebook.com/coolposts khalil shreateh

    other easy way is to use a chrome extension name toggle all ;)
    regards