What’s a Friend List?
The Facebook Friend List serves two functions:
It lets you decide which friends can see each status update you send.It lets you decide how much and what type of status updates and activity notices you want to see from each of your friends.
By default, the world’s largest social network creates a bunch of Facebook friend lists for you. These include ones for your close friends, acquaintances, and any work or college groups you may belong to on the network. You can also create a custom friend list.
Why Facebook Lists Make Things Easier
One convenient thing about a friend list is that you can choose a setting for everyone on it with a single click. That saves you from individually editing the display settings for each friend, one by one, to hide Facebook friends so that their updates don’t show on your news feed. Just add them to your list with people you feel similarly about. Distant acquaintances might go on one list, for example, and long-lost childhood friends to another. Work colleagues could form one list, and friends who share a hobby with you could be another.
Control the Content of Your News Feed
At the very least, put the people you don’t want to hear much from onto a particular list. If you do that, it only takes one click to change the setting for how often you want their updates to appear in your Facebook news feed.
Reach a Specific List of People
Having these people on one list allows you to selectively send a status update to a particular list and not have anyone else see it. First, put your best pals on your Close Friends list. Then, when you send an update you don’t want anyone else to see, select the Close Friends list from the publishing box. Your note is only sent to that list. To send posts to certain lists, select the drop-down menu to the left of the post button and select the list you want. You can also do the reverse—block a list of friends from seeing a particular post. To do this, select the Block this list option when you send the update.
How to Add People to a Facebook Friend List
Follow these steps to add a friend to any list: The default Friend List options are:
Close Friends is a list that Facebook automatically creates based on how much you interact with people on the network.The Acquaintances list is not populated automatically; you add people to it manually.Add people to the Restricted list if you only wish to share with them when you’ve manually chosen to do so.
How to Create a Custom Facebook Friend List
Follow these steps to create a new list:
How to Share Content With People in a Friend List
Now when you post, you can set it so that only those included in a given list can see the post. To make a post for a specific list, do the following:
