Contact import including facebook friends

Looks like I have a whole bunch of facebook friends intermingled with my regular contacts. I do not want my facebook contacts in my phone. How can I unsync them without manually having to delete them one at a time. There are over 500 I want to delete.
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Hi Krispie67,
To change this setting, please try opening your Contacts application and pulling down on the top of the screen to open the Settings Menu. Then scroll down to Facebook in the Contact List and change the button to Off. Hit Back, then please close and re-open your Contacts application. That should remove all your Facebook contacts from your Address Book.
Let me know if this helps.
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