Organzing your Facebook friends into "Lists' will make Facebook much more useful for you, and may, in fact, save your sanity.
From the Facebook home page, you create "Lists" and put different people on different lists. Then drag your "A-List" to the top, so by default those are the only folks you see when you first open Facebook...
On your Facebook home page, look at the left column ...Right below the list of icons in that column, you'll see a link that says "More"... Click on "More".
At the bottom of the expanded list, click "Create New List" (If you don't have a lot of stuff in the left column, you'll see "Create New List" without having to use the "More" button.)
After you click "Create a New List" a box will pop up displaying all your friends. Create a name for the list, then work thru all your friends, selecting just the ones you want to appear in your new list of update feeds.
When you've finished selecting friends to this list, click "Create List"
That new list will now appear at the bottom of the icons in your left sidebar column. Click on "More" again to expand the list.
Once the list is expanded, you can drag the icons to different positions in the list. If the list you just created is your "A-List", drag it to the top of the left column sidebar. The list that is at the top is the one that will display by default when you open Facebook.
To read what's in the other lists, just click on the list title.
Using this technique, you can make separate lists for special friends, family, business friends, Active Rain friends, people in a particular club or group, church friends, people working on a particular project. etc., etc., etc....
Thank you cheryl,
I never knew to I could do that. Great info.
Looks like I have another project on my list of things to do for next week. Thank you for sharing this information.
This is really great information! Keeping people in lists is especially helpful if you intend to hold events that you want to invite your friends/connections to. Instead of inviting people individually you can simply choose to invite specific lists. It's much easier.
You can also add people to your lists as you invite them to connect with you. You don't need to wait until they accept. When you click on ‘Add as a friend’, a box will pop up allowing you to type a personal message and Add to list. Click on ‘Add to list’ and create a list you would like to have. Even before this person accepts your friend request, you can go ahead and assign them to a list.
Great info here! Thanks for sharing!
Cheryl, I'm going to try to see if I can do this...honestly, FB drives me nuts! If I didn't get the notifications I'm miss everything :) I'm STILL missing comments and things. Ok, I see I have a project in front of me but THANK YOU for the information!!!
Hi Cheryl-These are great tips. While I don't have a lot of time for it this will make it much simpler. Thank you for the info. :-)
Me too Cheryl - didn 't know you could that. I hate all the crap on FB. Who care what member of the Gratefull dead would I represent? Does it matter? That's the kinda junk i get on FB. I need to change it up...
I have avoided using it because of the quantity of activity. This should help thanks.
Cheryl - Thanks for the instructions. I really need to sort out my friends on Facebook. This will certainly help.
Cheryl,
This was an easy to read how to post. Thank You.
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Cheryl, my sanity is improving by the minute. I started joining Generation Z a couple months ago, as a 71 yr young, so that I, too, would be able to do business in the modern modes. I am in all the "Socials", about to take ePro on-line, needing to learn how to use the Socials as direct accompaniments for my real estate business, listings, chat (that's easy!), and more that this GROUP (Joined yesterday) will offer.
Thanks for the Sanity Treatment!
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