Facebook: How To Use Your Friend Lists
As you have been using Facebook for a while, you might have come across a function called Friend Lists, with which you can sort your friends into sub groups.
This article will explore how you can make use of your Friend Lists and why it might be beneficial to have them.
What is it? Facebook used the term 'Friend Lists' for a sub group that you can create among your friends.
This allows you to target, for example, a message to be sent to the all the members of your personally created list.
Privacy settings You can create different privacy levels for different groups (=lists) of your friends.
This enables you to choose what part of your profile you want to be seen by which of your friends.
If you edit your privacy settings you can customize any setting and open it to the sub group of friends you want to.
When you click on "Customize" for a setting you will find a dialogue box pop-up.
Under "Make this open to" select "Specific People" from the drop-down menu and enter the name of the list you have already set up.
If you add a user to more than one list, the more restrictive of the privacy settings will apply to any of the settings.
Sending a message You can send a message to a Friend List from your inbox.
Just go to your message tab, click on the "Compose" button and enter the name of your Friend List into the "To" field.
Remember that the maximum number of recipients is always twenty, so you will only be able to send a message if the Friend List contains less than twenty people.
Chat options There are many benefits this feature in Chat: 1.
You can appear invisible to some people and not others 2.
You can find individual chat lists more quickly 3.
You can customize which list appears on the top in the Chat, which allows you to see them quickly If you don't want to use your Friend List in chat you can remove them easily by clicking on "Chat" in the bottom tool-bar, clicking on "Friend List" and unchecking each Friend List.
Tips: One friend can appear in more than one list.
You can have up to 100 friend lists with a maximum of 1,000 friends per list.
I doubt you need more than this.
This article will explore how you can make use of your Friend Lists and why it might be beneficial to have them.
What is it? Facebook used the term 'Friend Lists' for a sub group that you can create among your friends.
This allows you to target, for example, a message to be sent to the all the members of your personally created list.
Privacy settings You can create different privacy levels for different groups (=lists) of your friends.
This enables you to choose what part of your profile you want to be seen by which of your friends.
If you edit your privacy settings you can customize any setting and open it to the sub group of friends you want to.
When you click on "Customize" for a setting you will find a dialogue box pop-up.
Under "Make this open to" select "Specific People" from the drop-down menu and enter the name of the list you have already set up.
If you add a user to more than one list, the more restrictive of the privacy settings will apply to any of the settings.
Sending a message You can send a message to a Friend List from your inbox.
Just go to your message tab, click on the "Compose" button and enter the name of your Friend List into the "To" field.
Remember that the maximum number of recipients is always twenty, so you will only be able to send a message if the Friend List contains less than twenty people.
Chat options There are many benefits this feature in Chat: 1.
You can appear invisible to some people and not others 2.
You can find individual chat lists more quickly 3.
You can customize which list appears on the top in the Chat, which allows you to see them quickly If you don't want to use your Friend List in chat you can remove them easily by clicking on "Chat" in the bottom tool-bar, clicking on "Friend List" and unchecking each Friend List.
Tips: One friend can appear in more than one list.
You can have up to 100 friend lists with a maximum of 1,000 friends per list.
I doubt you need more than this.
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