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Chapter four. Finding and Adding Friends

In real life, your social network consists non only of people who work or study where you do, just too of people you've formed i-on-one relationships with: teachers, ex-sisters-in-constabulary, bowling buddies, and so on. It's the aforementioned with Facebook: You lot start with a network of schoolhouse or work buddies (see Chapter 3), so add friends one at a time. You lot can also employ Facebook to look upwardly old friends and find new ones.

Why would you lot want to overstate your Facebook social circle? Well, having friends is really the whole point of joining Facebook. You get to bandy life-in-progress tidbits (both serious and lightheaded), share what you're reading, play online games…the list is countless. But starting time you lot need to gather your pals. Read on to acquire how.

How Facebook Friends Work

In the world of Facebook, a friend is any Facebook member who has agreed that y'all 2 take something in mutual. Maybe y'all play on the same softball squad, volunteer at the local animal shelter together, or keep running into each other at parties thrown by the same ex-roommate. Peradventure you dated, took a road trip together, or yous're second cousins twice removed. How y'all know a Facebook friend doesn't thing; all that matters is that y'all both concur that you know each other.

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Facebook has no way of verifying the relationships between friends. But i of the major differences between Facebook and MySpace—the other big social networking site—is that Facebook strongly encourages truthfulness. Then, while having a zillion "friends" is considered a status symbol on MySpace, it's not such a big bargain on Facebook—and may even prove annoying. Because Facebook lards your home page with news of your "friends' " activities, having to weed through a bunch of news about people you don't actually know doing a bunch of things you don't really intendance well-nigh gets onetime quick. On Facebook, the goal is to put together a manageable listing of people you really know—and actually intendance nearly keeping upwards with.

2 people become Facebook friends when one person extends an invitation and the other person accepts, or confirms, information technology. When you lot get friends with someone on Facebook, iii things happen:

• You announced on your friend's friend list (Viewing Your Friends) and on her contour page (and vice versa) . On Facebook, equally in life, you're known by the visitor you keep: Everyone with access to your friend'south contour (or yours) tin see the relationship between the two of you. And with the click of a mouse, folks can hop from your friend's profile to yours, or from your profile to your friend'southward.

  

  Note

  One of the best, most addictive things near Facebook is its confessional nature. Facebook profiles encourage members to pontificate about subjects that don't often come upwards in polite conversation. And then, when you're friends with someone in Facebook, you might be surprised by the juicy details you learn about them.

• You can see your friend's contour (and vice versa) even if he'due south not in your network . This ways you can see the Events he's planning to attend, the Groups he'southward joined, and all the other people he'due south friends with, among other details. (The exception to this is if your friend has specifically blocked you from seeing certain personal details, as explained on Fighting Dorsum.)

• You receive automatic updates in your News Feed (Types of Updates) chronicling your friend's Facebook activities (and vice versa) .

  

Tip

Affiliate 6 explains how to sign up for updates on your friends' Facebook activities and how to customize the updates your friends get nigh yous.

Finding Friends

Before you can make someone your friend, you first take to find that person on Facebook. The site gives you four different ways to do this:

• Y'all can look up real-life friends and acquaintances who are already Facebook members.

• Yous can invite real-life friends and acquaintances who aren't on Facebook to join the site.

• You lot tin search for Facebook members you've never met but who share your interests (such as a groundwork in server-side technology or a passion for container gardening).

• Yous can browse through the potential friends Facebook suggests for you (based on criteria such as both of y'all going to college at the same time and sharing a common Facebook friend).

The post-obit sections explicate all of your options.

Finding People Who Are Facebook Members

Some of your existent-life friends and acquaintances might already be on Facebook. To detect them, apply i of the post-obit search methods:

• Search for Facebook members by proper name . To do then:

  1. Get-go typing the person's proper name in the search box at the top of whatsoever Facebook screen .

     

  2. If i of the profile pictures Facebook pops up looks similar the person you're trying to detect, bingo: You've found your pal! Merely click her motion-picture show to meet her profile. Otherwise, click the "See more than results" link at the bottom of the listing of suggested people.

  3. On the search results page that appears, click the People link on the left-hand side to weed out extraneous results, such as Groups and applications that happen to contain your searchee'due south name . Facebook displays a list of people matching the proper name you typed in. If the listing is gigantic, you can narrow your search using the drop-downwardly menu at the pinnacle of the list. Choose Location, Education, or Workplace from the carte du jour, and and then type a location, school, or workplace in the text box and click the Filter push.

     

     Tip

     In Facebook, all clickable links are blue. If one of the names you see in your search results (or on your Friends Listing, or anywhere else in Facebook) is blue, then clicking information technology takes you straight to that person's profile (or every bit much of the profile equally the person has granted you access to; see Controlling Who Sees Your Profile, Contact, and Friend Info).

• Search for Facebook members who are classmates, ex-classmates, or coworkers . At the top right of any Facebook screen, click the Account link and, from the drib-down list, choose Edit Friends. (If you've already added a friend or ii, you need to take ane extra step at this point: Head to the left side of the page that appears and click Notice Friends.) Then curl down and click the Other Tools link. When y'all do, Facebook displays a list of links customized based on the information y'all've provided to the site, and then they'll read something like, "Find Classmates From [your high school]," "Discover Classmates From [your college]," and "Find Coworkers From [your company]".

  

  

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  If you lot're new to Facebook, you'll see a "Find friends" link in the upper correct of every screen, and a "Discover people you know" link in the centre of your Habitation page (y'all may demand to ringlet downwardly a flake to run across it). Clicking either of these links takes yous directly to the Find Friends page displaying a list of folks (forth with ways to organize them to quickly find the ones you want to befriend).

  The adjacent screen that appears depends on which link you click and how many details you added to your contour. For case, if y'all already told Facebook you lot graduated from Arizona State University in 1990, then clicking "Find Classmates From Arizona State University" displays a list of members whose profiles mention that they attended ASU in 1990. If, on the other hand, y'all oasis't added any work-related details to your contour and click the "Find electric current or past coworkers" link, Facebook displays a screen yous tin can utilize to type in the company you want.

  

• Search for people you regularly email from your web-based email account . If you have a web-based e-mail address (such as your_name@gmail.com, your_name@yahoo.com, or your_name@aol.com), you tin can requite Facebook your email business relationship countersign and let information technology browse your e-mail address book for matching Facebook members. Here's how:

  At the height right of any Facebook screen, click Business relationship, then choose Edit Friends; if y'all already have a few Facebook friends, you lot too need to click Discover Friends on the left side of the Friends screen. (Alternatively, you can click the 2-headed Friend Requests icon that appears to the firsthand right of the Facebook logo in the upper left of any screen, and so click the Detect Your Friends link that appears.)

  

  In the Find Your Friends Wherever They Are section of the page that appears, simply click the email service you employ to keep in bear upon with the most pals, blazon in your email address (and, if prompted, your email password so Facebook tin can access your email account), and then click the Detect Friends button. If Facebook finds members who match the email addresses in your accost volume, it displays them; if it doesn't find any matches, information technology pops up a bulletin box request if you'd like to endeavor a unlike web-based email business relationship.

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  Keep in heed that when yous enter your electronic mail account countersign, you're handing over some pretty sensitive info to Facebook. After all, that password is the virtual cardinal to your e-mail business relationship, your accost book, and probably a agglomeration of other personal goodies. While Facebook is a reputable outfit and pledges not to shop your password, you might want to skip this step if this whole sharing business organisation makes you queasy.

  

• Search for people you regularly instant message . If y'all use an instant-messaging program like AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), ICQ Conversation, or Windows Live Messenger, you lot can add your IM screen name and countersign to your profile and and then tell Facebook scan your buddy list for matching Facebook members. To do and then: At the top right of whatsoever Facebook screen, click the Profile link. On the left side of your profile page, click the Info link, and then scroll down and click the Edit icon next to the Contact Information heading. In the IM Screen Names field, type your screen proper noun, and and then choose your messaging service (AIM, Skype, or whatever). When you stop, click the Relieve Changes push. Then, at the top left of your screen, click the Friend Requests icon (the silhouette of ii people), and then click the Find Your Friends link. Scroll down the page that appears and click your instant messaging service (you won't come across information technology unless you've already added a screen name to your contour). Finally, type in the screen name and countersign you utilize with your service and and so click the Find Friends push button. Facebook either displays matching Facebook members, or a message box asking if yous'd like to attempt your search once more (yous don't; if Facebook didn't find any matches the starting time time, it won't find whatsoever the second).

  

• Search for people you regularly email using a list of contacts . Depending on the electronic mail program you use, you can export a list of email addresses from the program and let Facebook scan the list for matching Facebook members. (If you use a spider web-based email account, see Finding People Who Are Facebook Members instead.) To practice and so: On the right side of your Home page, click the "Observe your friends" link (or, alternatively, at the top left of any screen, click the Friend Requests icon that'south right next to the Facebook logo, and then click Find Your Friends). Scroll downwards the page that appears and click the Other Tools link, then click the Upload Contact File link. In the section that appears, either tell Facebook to scan your Windows/Outlook/Outlook Limited contacts by clicking the "Find my Windows Contacts" button, or (if you use another email program, such as Mozilla Thunderbird or Mac Os X Accost Book) click the "How to create a contact file…" link and and so the proper name of the appropriate e-mail program. And so follow the instructions yous see to create and upload an email contact file Facebook can read. After yous finish, click Observe Friends. Facebook either displays the Facebook members whose e-mail addresses match those on your listing, or a link y'all can utilise to get technical help.

• Leaf through the friend suggestions Facebook offers . Facebook uses what it knows well-nigh you (based on your profile and any friends you've added) to come up with a helpful list of folks you lot may know: Facebook members who went to the same school at the aforementioned fourth dimension you did, for case, or friends of people you're already friends with. These suggestions appear on the correct side of your Home folio under the People You May Know heading when you're new to Facebook, just y'all can as well become to them by clicking Account at the top of any screen and selecting Edit Friends. On the left side of the screen that appears, click Find Friends, and so roll down to the People You May Know section. To encounter more than suggestions, click the More link. To tell Facebook to stop suggesting someone y'all know yous'd never befriend in a million years (the ex-blood brother-in-law who dented your automobile that time and never made good, for example), click the tiny 10 next to the person's proper noun.

  

Finding People Who Aren't Facebook Members

You tin can't add together people to your friend listing unless they're Facebook members. But say you've got a few existent-life pals you wish would sign up for the site so yous could keep in touch more than easily. Facebook gives yous an easy way to invite these people to join:

1. On the right side of your Facebook Home page, find the Get Connected section (yous may have to scroll down) and click the "Invite them now" link .

2. On the Invite Your Friends page that appears, type in your non-Facebook-pals' electronic mail addresses in the "To:" field, separated by commas; then type in a quick message (if you like) and click Invite . Facebook sends invitations to all the addresses yous listed.

   

   

Finding New Friends

Back in the olden days of Facebook, the site gave its members an like shooting fish in a barrel way to connect with each other one-on-ane based on shared interests and other profile information, such equally political views, hobbies, or favorite bands. You simply typed in what kind of folks you wanted to meet—for example, unmarried moms in your area who like to knit—and bingo: Y'all got an instant listing of potential pals, complete with a congenital-in conversation opener.

Yous can nevertheless search for kindred spirits on Facebook—later on all, that's one of the reasons Facebook is so popular—but to keep from becoming a behemothic spam free-for-all, the site has inverse the way you search. Rather than the avant-garde search feature yous used to use, Facebook now offers four different means to find like-minded members:

• Friend suggestions . As you lot just learned, Facebook suggests folks you might be interested in being friends with based on criteria such as your contour details and the friends you lot already have. To see these suggestions, follow the steps on Finding People Who Are Facebook Members.

• Groups . If you want to encounter young man history buffs or gardeners (or folks interested in whatever other topic or action), Facebook's old Groups are a good place to commencement. To search through onetime Groups: At the top of any Facebook screen, type the topic yous're interested in into the Search box, and then click the "See more results for [topic]" link that pops upwards. On the left side of the search results folio that appears, click the Groups link to narrow your results.

  Tip

  You can observe out more most Groups both old and new—including how to create a new one—in Chapter 7.

  

• Keyword search . Searching member details for a specific phrase or keyword, wherever it appears, isn't for the fainthearted (the phrase "like looking for a needle in a haystack" comes to heed). Still, depending on what kind of topic or activity you're searching for, information technology might yield expert results. The more unusual the topic or activity, the meliorate your chances of finding what y'all're looking for. To search fellow member details: At the top of any Facebook page, type what you're looking for into the Search box and so click the magnifying glass icon on the right side of the box. On the left side of the search results page that appears, click the People link.

  Tip

  If you determine to conduct a keyword search, fix for a mountain of results. As well continue in mind that Facebook displays results no affair which fellow member detail matches your keyword or what words or phrases surround it. For example, searching for "bears" will find both the guy who founded "Citizens Against Bears" and the lady who listed "The Zygote Bears" as her favorite ring, amidst a zillion other results. To home in on Facebook members who live in a certain city, attend a sure school, or work at a certain company (based on their Facebook profiles), select Location, Workplace, or School at the top of the search results folio, type in your criteria, and and so click the Filter button.

• 3rd-party search applications . If you don't find what (or who) you're looking for using Facebook's search characteristic, you can endeavor a search application (run across Facebook Applications: An Overview for the scoop on Facebook applications). To find a search awarding: At the peak of whatever Facebook screen, blazon search in the Search field, click the magnifying drinking glass icon, and and then click the Apps link on the left side of the screen that appears.

  

Note

Facebook applications vary in quality, and they all look and work a piddling differently. And so later on yous find one yous think looks interesting, you lot'll want to spend a couple minutes checking out its reviews and playing with it to meet if it works for you lot. To learn more than about Facebook applications, flip to Chapter 13.

Inviting People to Exist Your Friend

You can't just add people to your friend listing willy-nilly; they accept to be Facebook members and concord to be added. (Finding People Who Aren't Facebook Members explains how to invite non-Facebook members to join the site.) To invite a Facebook member to exist your friend:

1. Search for the person you want to befriend (run into Finding New Friends) .

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   If you transport a friend request to someone who tin can't normally see your profile—she's not in your network, for example—Facebook temporarily grants that person access to the basic, work-related, and education-related portions of your contour (Viewing Your Profile) and then she can make an informed decision most whether or not to take your invitation.

2. If your search returns the person you're looking for, click the "Add as Friend" push button you encounter to the right of the person's contour picture . Alternatively, click the person's name or moving-picture show to read a chip more about her and and then, at the summit of the potential friend's profile page, click the "Add as Friend" button. If you don't find the person you're looking for, you can invite her to join Facebook (Finding People Who Aren't Facebook Members).

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   If you don't run across the "Add together as Friend" push button, it'south because the person y'all're trying to befriend has adjusted her privacy settings to block friend requests (see Chapter 14 for details).

   

3. Fill out the confirmation box that appears so click Transport Request . In the confirmation box, Facebook gives yous the option of including a note forth with your request; just click the "Add together a personal message" link. You lot may too see a couple of other options: If you've created any Friend Lists (Organizing Your Friends), you tin click the "Add to Listing" button to add together the person to a Friend List (assuming she accepts your request). And if you lot've activated your cellphone with Facebook (run into Setting Up Facebook Mobile), you tin can plow on the "Subscribe via SMS" checkbox to have that person's posts sent to your phone.

   Subsequently you click Send Asking, you see a Friend Request Sent dialog box that lets you know Facebook has sent an invitation to your would-be friend's electronic mail address and posted a friend request to her Facebook Home page (Viewing Your Facebook Home Folio).

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   If you're new to Facebook, the Friend Request Sent dialog box may include friend suggestions (friends of your soon-to-be-friend) for y'all to consider. Click "Add as Friend" if you're interested, or Close if you're not.

   

   Note

   If the person you're extending the virtual hand of friendship to is make-new to Facebook, later on yous send the friend asking, Facebook displays a list of your current friends—just in example you lot want to ask them to join you in extending their virtual easily.

   While yous're waiting to hear back from your friend, a "Friend Requested" button replaces the usual "Add every bit Friend" button side by side to her name in your search results, and when yous visit her contour, y'all see an "Awaiting friend confirmation" characterization next to her name. If your friend agrees to the friendship and responds either to the email or the Facebook request (Finding People Who Are Facebook Members), Facebook adds your proper name to her friend list, and her proper name to yours. Facebook also sends you a Notification (see Customizing Your Mini Feed) letting y'all know that she confirmed the friendship.

   Note

   In its quest to back up polite social interactions, Facebook doesn't give members a style to explicitly reject friend invitations, but they can ignore them. If you lot've sent an invitation and haven't heard back after a few days, endeavor sending the person a message or poking him (Poking). Still no answer? Distressing—you've been snubbed.

Responding to Friend Requests

When someone tries to add together yous to her friend list, two things happen: Facebook sends y'all an email invitation and posts a petty notice on your Home page telling you lot that someone wants to be your friend. At that signal, you've got two choices: Y'all can confirm the request or ignore it, either on Facebook or right in your email program.

Confirming E-mail Requests

If yous're the type of person who checks his e-mail every hour (or every v minutes) just but logs onto Facebook every couple of days, yous'll want to handle friend requests from inside your email program. Here'due south how:

1. Look in your email inbox for a bulletin with the field of study "[Somebody] wants to be friends on Facebook."

   

2. Open the message and click the green Confirm Friend push button or the confirmation link . Doing so whisks you to the Facebook page where yous can confirm your friendship as explained in the adjacent section.

Confirming Requests in Facebook

Some people log into Facebook whenever they're in front of a calculator. If you're i of them, it's easier to respond to friend requests from your Facebook Home page than to fire upwardly your email program and wade through your inbox looking for invitations. To ostend a friend request from inside Facebook:

1. At the top of whatever Facebook page, click the Friend Requests icon just to the right of the word "facebook" . The icon looks like the heads and shoulders of 2 picayune people (hover your cursor over the icons to meet what each one is called). Higher up it, yous'll see a red icon indicating how many friend requests you lot have. When y'all click it, Facebook takes you to the Confirm Requests page.

   

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   Friend requests too appear on the upper-right side of your Dwelling house folio under Requests. (If y'all don't take whatever friend requests, you won't see whatsoever listed under Requests.) But click the "friend request(s)" link there to view them.

2. Make sure y'all want to take the request, so click Confirm . After you click Confirm, you're Facebook friends with that person. Easy, huh?

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   If you've never heard of the person who sent you lot the friend asking, the message he sent doesn't make sense, or the two of y'all have no friends in mutual, then yous probably want to click the person'due south proper name and check out his profile (and perhaps send him a "Do I know you lot?" message past clicking the Send Message link that appears beneath his profile picture) to make sure the request is on the up-and-upward.

   

   Tip

   To see what friends you and your new friend accept in common, Facebook lets y'all know by displaying a "[number] mutual friend(southward)" link later on the person's proper noun on the Confirm Requests page. Simply click this link or, on the right side of her profile page, click the Common Friends link to run across the acquaintances you share.

Ignoring a Friend Request

In Facebook as in life, there will exist times when someone extends the hand of friendship and you just don't desire to shake information technology. Later all, confirming a friend request doesn't only give your new pal (and all the Facebook applications he uses; come across Finding Applications) admission to a big chunk of your personal life; information technology likewise lets the world know that you recollect enough of the guy to declare yourself his friend. If you get a friend request from someone you've never heard of, say, or whose profile paints a moving-picture show so creepy you want to lock your virtual door, all you have to practice is quietly remove all traces of the asking and get on with your life. To do so:

1. Sign into Facebook (Viewing Your Facebook Habitation Page) if you're not already there .

2. At the meridian of any Facebook page, click the Friend Requests icon merely to the right of the discussion "facebook" .

3. On the screen that appears, click Non Now . That'due south all you take to exercise: Facebook instantly removes the red number above the Friend Requests icon on your Dwelling page.

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   The guy who sent the invitation won't exist notified that you've officially ignored him; he merely won't receive a confirmation that you lot're friends.

4. Dorsum in your email program, delete the friend-request e-mail .

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   If you say "non at present" to a friend request and then detect yourself reconsidering later, no sweat—you can still accept the request. To exercise so, at the superlative of whatsoever Facebook folio, click the Friend Requests icon; and so click Run into All Friend Requests. On the Requests page that appears, click the Come across Hidden Requests link. Later on you practice, Facebook gives you the take chances to ostend the request, or delete it for practiced.

Viewing Your Friends

Facebook automatically displays 10 randomly selected friends on the left side of your profile (y'all may need to scroll downwards to come across it).

To meet more these 10 friends—or to run across more details about each of your friends—yous've got a few options. Yous can:

• Meet all of your friends in ane fell dive . To practice and so:

  • On your contour folio, click the Friends link that appears to a higher place the 10 random friends.

  • At the tiptop right of whatsoever Facebook screen, click the discussion Account, and so click Edit Friends. On the Friends page that appears, click the Recently Interacted button and, from the drop-downward list, cull All Friends.

    

    Tip

    The beauty and fun of Facebook lies in its who-knows-who connections, and the site makes information technology easy to play matchmaker. To suggest that a Facebook friend consider friending some other of your pals: On i friend'due south profile page, roll downward until you encounter the Suggest Friends link on the left side of the page. Click the link and then, in the dialog box that appears, click to turn on the checkbox next to as many of your other pals every bit you like. When you finish, click Transport Suggestions.

  • Run across friends who are online correct this infinitesimal . At the bottom correct of whatsoever Facebook screen, the number that appears to the right of the word "Chat" tells yous how many of your Facebook friends are currently logged into the site. (The word "Offline" may appear instead of a number.) Click the Chat link and a window pops up showing you lot exactly which of your friends are currently logged into Facebook.

    Tip

    To send a real-time chat message to a friend, in the Conversation window, just click the name of the person yous want to conversation with. A green dot means the friend is actively using the site (and so is probably going to see your message); a one-half-moon shape ways the friend is logged into Facebook but hasn't done anything on the site for ten minutes (and and then may be out on a doughnut run). Encounter Chatting for details on chatting.

  • See your friends organized past whether you know them from college, piece of work, your area, or a mutual passion . At the peak right of any Facebook screen, click the word Account, and so click Edit Friends. On the Friends folio that appears, click the Recently Interacted button and, from the drop-downward bill of fare, cull Search past Current City or Hometown (to see friends grouped by where they live now or used to alive), School (to run into friends who vest to college networks), Workplace (to encounter friends who belong to work-related networks), or Involvement (to see friends who listed Chihuahuas, chili cook-offs, or some other involvement on their profiles). If y'all've joined a network (Changing Business relationship Info), the network's name appears in the drop-down carte, also; click information technology to show but those friends who belong to the same network.

Note

When you choose Search by Current Metropolis, Hometown, School, Workplace, or Interest, Facebook displays a text field you tin can use to point which detail city, school, visitor, or hobby you lot're interested in group your friends by.

Note

A cool new feature chosen Friendship Pages lets you look at the history of any Facebook friendship: posts y'all and a friend have written on each others' Walls over the years, Events you attended together, photos you both appear in, and so on. To have a trip downward memory lane, head to any friend's profile folio and click the Meet Friendship link on the right side of the page. (On your News Feed, clicking the Come across Friendship link that appears in some news items lets you view Friendship Pages chronicling other folks' relationships.)

Organizing Your Friends

The options Facebook gives you lot for viewing your friends are great if you lot have merely a handful of pals. But if yous're a hardcore social butterfly with dozens or even hundreds of friends, you'll want to organize them into separate lists that reverberate how you categorize them in your listen.

For case, imagine that in add-on to your workplace network, you're involved in a book society, a softball league, and a 12-stride programme. Creating a separate listing for each group of people lets y'all go on runway of your different social circles at a glance. And considering Facebook lets yous ship the same message to all the friends on a unmarried listing all at once (see Viewing a Friend List), command how much news about the listing you want to see on your News Feed (Affiliate vi), and even invite everyone on the list to join the same Group (Chapter seven) or Outcome (Chapter eight), creating carve up Friend Lists helps yous communicate with folks quickly and reduces the gamble of having your worlds collide.

Notation

Friend Lists are for your eyes only—your friends never see which lists, if whatsoever, you've added them to.

Creating a Friend List

Facebook lets y'all create up to 100 different Friend Lists, each of which can contain up to ane,000 names. (Of class, unless you're a politician, you lot probably won't demand anywhere almost that many.) Here'southward how to create one:

1. At the meridian correct of any Facebook page, click the Account link, and so click Edit Friends .

2. On the Friends page that appears, click the "Create a List" push button .

   

3. In the "Enter a Name" field of the box that appears, blazon a proper name for your list and so striking Enter . In the post-obit case, the list's name is "out-of-town family".

   

4. Add some friends to your list . The easiest way is to click the thumbnail pictures of the people y'all want to add to your list. (Clicking a thumbnail one time turns it blue to allow you know you've selected it; clicking over again deselects it.) Alternatively, you lot can click the "Offset Typing a Proper noun" field and blazon in names i at a time.

5. When you cease, click the Create List button . Your newly created list appears on the Friends page (click Account, so Edit Friends to get there) below the Lists heading. It also appears on your Home page (How Facebook Works) when you click the Friends link on the left-hand side of the screen. When you view thumbnail pictures of any of the friends you've added to the list, the listing's proper noun appears next to those people's names.

   

   Tip

   You tin can add the aforementioned person to multiple Friend Lists.

Viewing a Friend List

To see all the people on a particular Friend List:

1. At the top right of whatsoever Facebook screen, click the Business relationship link and then click Edit Friends .

2. On the left side of the Friends page that appears, click the name of the Friend Listing you want to view . Facebook displays the names and profile pictures of the friends you lot've added to that list.

If you want to see what everyone on a particular Friend List has been up to lately, head to your Home page by clicking the give-and-take "facebook" or "Abode" at the top of any screen. On the left side of the screen, click the Friends link, and then click the name of the list you lot want to meet. (If you have a lot of Friend Lists, you may demand to click the More link to run into them all.) Facebook shows you those friends' recent activities.

Editing a Friend List

Online or off, social circles and friendships alter over time. After yous've created a Friend Listing (Organizing Your Friends), you tin change its name, add people to it, or delete folks from it.

To rename a list:

1. Go to the left side of your Habitation folio and click the Friends link . Facebook displays all your Friend Lists beneath the Friends link.

2. Click the name of the list you want to change .

3. On the page that appears, click the Edit List button .

4. In the dialog box that pops up, click the Edit link and then make your changes. When you lot stop, click the Salve List button .

   Note

   Alternatively, you can change the name of a Friend Listing past clicking the Account link at the acme of any Facebook screen and then clicking Edit Friends. On the left side of the page that appears, click the name of the list you lot desire to rename and then, at the top of the screen, click the Edit Name link then follow pace iv higher up.

To add friends to an existing list:

1. At the top left of any Facebook page, click the Account link and so click Edit Friends .

2. On the left side of the screen that appears, click the name of the list you desire to add friends to .

3. Type someone's name into the "Blazon a friend's name to add together" field (Facebook pops upward a helpful list afterwards you begin typing) . Alternatively, if y'all spot your friend's name in the Suggested For This Listing section on the right side of the list page, click the plus sign that appears next to that friend's name.

   Tip

   To add a scattering of friends to an existing list apace, click the Add Multiple button that appears on the listing page. In the dialog box that appears, scroll to browse through all your pals, clicking each Facebook friend you want to add to your list. When yous finish, click Save List.

   

To delete friends from a list, follow the steps for calculation a friend to an existing list; merely in step 3, instead of typing a new proper name, mouse over the name of one of the folks already listed and and so click the Edit Lists button that appears. Finally, on the drop-down list that appears, click the name of the list yous want to delete the friend from (it has a checkmark next to it). Facebook removes the person from that list and deletes the checkmark.

Tip

To delete a slew of friends from a listing quickly: At the top left of whatsoever Facebook page, click the Account link and so click Edit Friends. On the left side of your Friends page, click the name of the list yous desire to sparse. On the listing page that appears, click the Add Multiple button. And then, in the dialog box that appears, curlicue downwardly to browse through all your pals, clicking each blue, checkmarked Facebook friend you want to delete from your listing (the checkmark disappears later on you click it to let y'all know that friend is off the list). When you finish, click the Relieve List button.

Deleting a Friend List

Perhaps yous created a Friend List and observe you never use information technology. Or perchance the number of friends on ane of your Friend Lists has dwindled to cipher. Whatever your reason, deleting a Friend List is easy:

1. View the list you want to delete (Creating a Friend List) .

2. Head to the bottom of the list and click the Delete List link . In the confirmation box that appears, click Confirm.

Breaking Upwards: Unfriending Friends

Breaking upwardly is never easy, but sometimes you just gotta do it. Say one of your Facebook friends stabs you in the electronic back by posting inappropriate stuff on your Wall or spamming all your other friends, and you really have no selection but to cut him loose. To remove someone from your collection of Facebook friends:

1. At the elevation right of whatever Facebook page, click the Business relationship link then click Edit Friends .

2. On the page that appears, click the Recently Interacted push and, from the driblet-down list that appears, choose All Friends .

3. Curlicue to the name of the person you want to "unfriend," and so click the X that appears to the correct of his name .

4. In the confirmation box that appears, click "Remove from Friends." You lot're friends no more than.

   Tip

   Alternatively, if you're on someone'due south profile page, ringlet downwardly the screen until you spot the Unfriend link on the left side, and then click it.

   

   Note

   Unlike quietly ignoring a friend request, unfriending someone sends a clear message. Considering Facebook friendship is reciprocal, removing a friend ways you disappear from your former friend's All Friends listing—an unmistakable brushoff.

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