Should I delete my friends or just make a new facebook?

[BoB Sir Dylan]

This is what I want:
>To only have the people on there who I personally know, are friends or family, or people in my year, and maybe people I've talked to once or twice. I want to remove all the random people who I never talk to and people I don't like or know. (At the mo it's 950 friends, I want to get it to about 300)
It's going to take me hours to delete them one by one, which is the only way, i've already asked.

The other thing I could do is make a new facebook, but this would take away all my old 'friendships' with people to look back on, it would take away all my old private messages with people (hundreds) and all of my old status's and photos, which to be honest the status's and photos I don't care, but I want to keep the messages and friendships with people!

Thanks for reading, which should I do?