Lists Can Simplify Your Facebook Experience
In the past year, Facebook has added the ability to categorize your friends in lists, enabling you to filter the status and news updates as well as see which groups of friends are online. But many people aren't aware of this capability, and are oftentimes surprised when I show them in the sessions I present. So here's a quick blurb on how to do it.
While you're logged onto your Facebook account, go to "Account" (upper right hand corner of FB), select "Edit Friends"
and "Create New List." Name your list whatever you'd like. I have several set up, for REALTORS, mortgage brokers and speakers/trainers. I also have geographic lists created, though most people won't want to go to that extreme.
You can also create a list in the "Chat" area of Facebook, simply by selecting "Chat" (lower right hand corner) and selecting "Friend Lists." You can also add friends to a list simply by dragging their name - they have to be in the chat box - to the list you'd like to add them to.
A tip for those just getting started on this: don't create too many lists, as it becomes a management headache later on.
After you've created your lists, you can select which
lists your friends go into (they can be in multiple lists). Then you can
select a list from your Home Page (on the left side of the page, under "Friends") and it will only show updates from
those people within the list.
When accepting new friends after
that, make sure to assign them to lists BEFORE you accept them. It's
easier to manage that way.
I'm going to shoot a video tutorial on this process in the next few days, and I'll append it to this post. In the meantime, I hope that helped!