How To Create A List To Organize Friends On Facebook : Are you seeing all your Facebook friends’ updates in your news feed? I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say no, you’re not.
Facebook tries to guess what you’re most interested in and who you’re most interested in hearing it from. That means Facebook shows you the updates from people it thinks are most relevant to you, not the people you may want to hear from the most (though, admittedly, sometimes those overlap).
So how can you take back control of your news feed and see the updates you want to see? Use Facebook lists.
Facebook lists are a way to organize your friends so you can see updates you want and ignore those you don’t. There are two kinds of lists: Friend lists and Interest lists. This article explains how to create a Facebook Friends list. Next week I’ll show you how to make an Interest list for brand pages you like.
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If you’ve ever noticed that you aren’t seeing status updates from certain friends, you may want to consider using the Facebook Lists feature.
Lists show up in your left sidebar. When you click on a specific list, your news feed changes to show just the updates from the people on that list. By assigning friends to specific lists, you can click on the list and see updates you don’t want to miss.
When you create your Facebook account, Facebook creates a few Friend lists for you, but you can create your own additional lists as needed (or wanted). This article discusses how the Facebook default lists work and how you can create your own lists that may better suit your needs.
Before I show you how to make your own Friend lists, let’s talk about the lists Facebook creates for you. On your left sidebar, scroll down until you see the Friends header. Mouseover that and click the More link. Your news feed changes to show all the lists Facebook has created for you or that you’ve created.
Facebook has created the following lists for you automatically:
TIP: The Close Friends, Acquaintances, and Restricted Lists are completely private. People aren’t notified if they’re added to any of these lists, and no one else can see who is on these lists. People aren’t notified if you remove them from these lists either, so feel free to edit at will!
Contacts you put in your Close Friends List are given higher priority than contacts you put in your Acquaintance List. You’re essentially helping Facebook decide which of your contacts’ updates are most important to you. If you ever feel like you aren’t seeing enough of the updates from people on your Acquaintance Lists, you can either move those people to your Close Friends List, or you can go to your left sidebar and click the Acquaintance list to see the updates from people on that list.
The other default lists are populated by Facebook based on your Facebook connections who also have those items listed. For example, your Facebook friends who list the same high school as you show up in the High School list. Or contacts that also list your place of employment will show up in the Work list.
You can edit these lists and add or remove people as it makes sense for you, but remember: These lists send notifications when you add people to them (and Facebook asks them to reciprocate by adding you to their lists).
Now that you understand lists, you may want to create your own Friend lists. Any lists you create and populate remain private. People you add to or remove from lists won’t be notified.
To create a new friend list, follow these steps:
Tip: When you accept a new friend request on Facebook, you’re immediately taken to that person’s personal profile page. To add your new friend to a particular list, click the Friends button (you’ll see it under their big cover photo). From the options, choose the list you want to add this friend to. You can also choose to create a new list to add them to.
If you ever want to change your lists, it’s easy:
Are you using Facebook lists? Leave me a comment and let me know if they’ve helped you keep up with more friends.