If You Know Send Her a Message

Affiliate 4. Finding and Adding Friends

In real life, your social network consists not just of people who work or study where you do, only too of people yous've formed one-on-i relationships with: teachers, ex-sisters-in-law, bowling buddies, and so on. It's the same with Facebook: You start with a network of school or work buddies (see Chapter 3), and then add together friends one at a time. You can also employ Facebook to expect up former friends and find new ones.

Why would you want to enlarge your Facebook social circle? Well, having friends is really the whole bespeak of joining Facebook. You get to swap life-in-progress tidbits (both serious and dizzy), share what y'all're reading, play online games…the listing is endless. Simply first you need to gather your pals. Read on to learn how.

How Facebook Friends Work

In the earth of Facebook, a friend is whatever Facebook fellow member who has agreed that you two have something in common. Maybe you lot play on the same softball team, volunteer at the local animal shelter together, or keep running into each other at parties thrown by the aforementioned ex-roommate. Maybe you dated, took a route trip together, or you're second cousins twice removed. How you know a Facebook friend doesn't matter; all that matters is that you both agree that you lot know each other.

Notation

Facebook has no way of verifying the relationships between friends. But one of the major differences betwixt Facebook and MySpace—the other big social networking site—is that Facebook strongly encourages truthfulness. So, while having a zillion "friends" is considered a condition symbol on MySpace, it'due south not such a big bargain on Facebook—and may even prove abrasive. Considering Facebook lards your home page with news of your "friends' " activities, having to weed through a agglomeration of news nearly people you don't really know doing a bunch of things you don't really care well-nigh gets old quick. On Facebook, the goal is to put together a manageable list of people you lot really know—and really care most keeping up with.

Ii people become Facebook friends when one person extends an invitation and the other person accepts, or confirms, information technology. When yous become 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, as in life, y'all're known by the company you lot keep: Everyone with access to your friend's profile (or yours) can 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 contour to your friend'south.

  

  Note

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

• You tin can encounter your friend's profile (and vice versa) fifty-fifty if he'south not in your network . This ways you can run across the Events he's planning to attend, the Groups he'southward joined, and all the other people he'southward friends with, amidst other details. (The exception to this is if your friend has specifically blocked y'all from seeing certain personal details, as explained on Fighting Back.)

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

  

Tip

Chapter vi explains how to sign upwards for updates on your friends' Facebook activities and how to customize the updates your friends get about you.

Finding Friends

Earlier you lot tin can brand someone your friend, you lot first accept to find that person on Facebook. The site gives you four dissimilar ways to practice this:

• You tin look up real-life friends and acquaintances who are already Facebook members.

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

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

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

The following sections explain all of your options.

Finding People Who Are Facebook Members

Some of your real-life friends and acquaintances might already exist on Facebook. To find them, use ane of the following search methods:

• Search for Facebook members by name . To do so:

  1. Start typing the person'due south proper name in the search box at the top of any Facebook screen .

     

  2. If one of the profile pictures Facebook pops upwards looks like the person you're trying to find, bingo: You've found your pal! Simply click her picture to see her contour. Otherwise, click the "Meet more than results" link at the lesser of the list of suggested people.

  3. On the search results page that appears, click the People link on the left-hand side to weed out inapplicable results, such equally Groups and applications that happen to comprise your searchee'due south proper name . Facebook displays a list of people matching the name you typed in. If the listing is gigantic, you lot tin can narrow your search using the drib-downwards carte at the top of the listing. Choose Location, Education, or Workplace from the menu, and then type a location, school, or workplace in the text box and click the Filter button.

     

     Tip

     In Facebook, all clickable links are blue. If one of the names you run into in your search results (or on your Friends List, or anywhere else in Facebook) is blue, and then clicking it takes you direct to that person's profile (or as much of the contour as the person has granted y'all 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 drop-down list, choose Edit Friends. (If y'all've already added a friend or two, you need to take one actress footstep at this point: Caput to the left side of the page that appears and click Find Friends.) Then curlicue down and click the Other Tools link. When you lot do, Facebook displays a list of links customized based on the data you've provided to the site, so they'll read something like, "Find Classmates From [your high school]," "Find Classmates From [your college]," and "Find Coworkers From [your visitor]".

  

  

  Notation

  If y'all're new to Facebook, you'll see a "Find friends" link in the upper correct of every screen, and a "Find people you know" link in the middle of your Domicile page (you may need to curlicue down a chip to come across it). Clicking either of these links takes you directly to the Find Friends page displaying a listing of folks (forth with ways to organize them to apace find the ones yous want to befriend).

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

  

• Search for people you regularly email from your web-based email business relationship . If you lot accept a web-based electronic mail address (such as your_name@gmail.com, your_name@yahoo.com, or your_name@aol.com), you can give Facebook your electronic mail account password and let information technology browse your email address book for matching Facebook members. Here'southward how:

  At the top right of any Facebook screen, click Account, then choose Edit Friends; if you already accept a few Facebook friends, yous also need to click Notice Friends on the left side of the Friends screen. (Alternatively, you can click the two-headed Friend Requests icon that appears to the immediate right of the Facebook logo in the upper left of any screen, and then click the Discover Your Friends link that appears.)

  

  In the Discover Your Friends Wherever They Are department of the page that appears, simply click the email service you lot use to go along in touch with the virtually pals, type in your email accost (and, if prompted, your email password so Facebook tin can access your email business relationship), and then click the Find Friends button. If Facebook finds members who friction match the e-mail addresses in your address book, information technology displays them; if information technology doesn't find whatsoever matches, it pops upwards a message box asking if you'd similar to effort a dissimilar web-based email account.

  Note

  Keep in listen that when you enter your e-mail account password, you're handing over some pretty sensitive info to Facebook. After all, that password is the virtual central to your email account, your accost book, and probably a bunch of other personal goodies. While Facebook is a reputable outfit and pledges not to store your password, you might desire to skip this step if this whole sharing business makes you queasy.

  

• Search for people y'all regularly instant message . If you use an instant-messaging program similar AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), ICQ Chat, or Windows Live Messenger, you tin add together your IM screen name and password to your contour and then tell Facebook scan your buddy list for matching Facebook members. To do so: At the acme right of any Facebook screen, click the Profile link. On the left side of your profile page, click the Info link, and and so gyre down and click the Edit icon side by side to the Contact Information heading. In the IM Screen Names field, type your screen name, and so choose your messaging service (AIM, Skype, or whatsoever). When you terminate, click the Relieve Changes button. And so, at the top left of your screen, click the Friend Requests icon (the silhouette of two people), and and then click the Find Your Friends link. Scroll down the page that appears and click your instant messaging service (you won't see it unless y'all've already added a screen name to your profile). Finally, blazon in the screen proper name and password you use with your service and so click the Find Friends push. Facebook either displays matching Facebook members, or a message box asking if yous'd like to endeavour your search over again (you don't; if Facebook didn't find any matches the offset time, information technology won't find any the second).

  

• Search for people y'all regularly electronic mail using a list of contacts . Depending on the email program y'all utilize, you can export a list of email addresses from the program and let Facebook scan the listing for matching Facebook members. (If you use a spider web-based email account, encounter Finding People Who Are Facebook Members instead.) To practise so: On the right side of your Dwelling house page, click the "Find your friends" link (or, alternatively, at the acme left of any screen, click the Friend Requests icon that's right side by side to the Facebook logo, and so click Find Your Friends). Scroll down 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 browse your Windows/Outlook/Outlook Express contacts past clicking the "Find my Windows Contacts" button, or (if you apply another e-mail program, such as Mozilla Thunderbird or Mac Os X Address Book) click the "How to create a contact file…" link and then the name of the appropriate e-mail program. Then follow the instructions you meet to create and upload an e-mail contact file Facebook can read. After yous cease, click Find Friends. Facebook either displays the Facebook members whose electronic mail addresses friction match those on your list, or a link y'all can utilise to get technical help.

• Leaf through the friend suggestions Facebook offers . Facebook uses what information technology knows about you (based on your profile and any friends you've added) to come up with a helpful list of folks you may know: Facebook members who went to the same school at the aforementioned time you did, for instance, or friends of people you're already friends with. These suggestions appear on the right side of your Home page under the People Yous May Know heading when y'all're new to Facebook, but you lot can also go to them by clicking Account at the pinnacle of whatsoever screen and selecting Edit Friends. On the left side of the screen that appears, click Detect Friends, and so curlicue down to the People Yous May Know section. To run into more suggestions, click the More link. To tell Facebook to stop suggesting someone yous know you'd never befriend in a one thousand thousand years (the ex-blood brother-in-law who dented your car that time and never made good, for example), click the tiny X next to the person'due south name.

  

Finding People Who Aren't Facebook Members

You tin can't add together people to your friend list unless they're Facebook members. But say yous've got a few real-life pals you lot wish would sign up for the site and then you could continue in bear upon more easily. Facebook gives yous an easy way to invite these people to join:

1. On the right side of your Facebook Home page, detect the Become Connected section (y'all may have to scroll down) and click the "Invite them now" link .

2. On the Invite Your Friends page that appears, blazon in your not-Facebook-pals' email addresses in the "To:" field, separated past commas; then type in a quick message (if you like) and click Invite . Facebook sends invitations to all the addresses you 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-one based on shared interests and other profile information, such as political views, hobbies, or favorite bands. Yous but typed in what kind of folks you wanted to run across—for instance, single moms in your area who like to knit—and bingo: Yous got an instant list of potential pals, consummate with a built-in chat opener.

You can notwithstanding search for kindred spirits on Facebook—after all, that'due south ane of the reasons Facebook is and so popular—simply to keep from condign a giant spam free-for-all, the site has changed the way y'all search. Rather than the advanced search feature you used to use, Facebook now offers 4 different ways to find like-minded members:

• Friend suggestions . As you simply learned, Facebook suggests folks y'all might exist interested in being friends with based on criteria such as your profile details and the friends yous already have. To see these suggestions, follow the steps on Finding People Who Are Facebook Members.

• Groups . If y'all desire to meet fellow history buffs or gardeners (or folks interested in any other topic or action), Facebook'due south erstwhile Groups are a good place to showtime. To search through old Groups: At the meridian of any Facebook screen, blazon the topic you lot're interested in into the Search box, and then click the "See more results for [topic]" link that pops upward. On the left side of the search results page that appears, click the Groups link to narrow your results.

  Tip

  You can find out more most Groups both sometime and new—including how to create a new 1—in Affiliate vii.

  

• 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 mind). Still, depending on what kind of topic or activity you're searching for, it might yield expert results. The more than unusual the topic or activity, the meliorate your chances of finding what you're looking for. To search member details: At the top of whatever Facebook folio, type what you're looking for into the Search box and then 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 decide to carry a keyword search, set up for a mount of results. As well keep in mind that Facebook displays results no matter 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 band, among a zillion other results. To home in on Facebook members who live in a certain city, attend a certain schoolhouse, or piece of work at a sure visitor (based on their Facebook profiles), select Location, Workplace, or School at the top of the search results folio, blazon in your criteria, and then click the Filter push.

• Third-political party search applications . If you don't find what (or who) you're looking for using Facebook'southward search characteristic, you can effort a search application (see Facebook Applications: An Overview for the scoop on Facebook applications). To observe a search application: At the top of any Facebook screen, type search in the Search field, click the magnifying glass icon, and so click the Apps link on the left side of the screen that appears.

  

Annotation

Facebook applications vary in quality, and they all look and piece of work a little differently. So after you find i you lot think looks interesting, you'll want to spend a couple minutes checking out its reviews and playing with it to meet if information technology works for you. To learn more about Facebook applications, flip to Chapter 13.

Inviting People to Be Your Friend

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

1. Search for the person y'all desire to befriend (encounter Finding New Friends) .

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   If you send a friend asking to someone who can't commonly see your profile—she'due south not in your network, for example—Facebook temporarily grants that person access to the basic, piece of work-related, and instruction-related portions of your profile (Viewing Your Profile) and so she can make an informed decision about whether or non to have your invitation.

2. If your search returns the person you're looking for, click the "Add as Friend" button you see to the right of the person'due south profile moving picture . Alternatively, click the person's name or picture to read a bit more nearly her and and then, at the tiptop of the potential friend's profile folio, click the "Add as Friend" push. 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).

   Note

   If you don't see the "Add together as Friend" button, information technology's because the person you're trying to befriend has adjusted her privacy settings to block friend requests (meet Affiliate 14 for details).

   

3. Fill up out the confirmation box that appears and then click Send Asking . In the confirmation box, Facebook gives you the option of including a note along with your asking; merely click the "Add a personal message" link. You may too see a couple of other options: If you've created any Friend Lists (Organizing Your Friends), you can click the "Add together to List" button to add the person to a Friend List (assuming she accepts your asking). And if you've activated your cellphone with Facebook (come across Setting Up Facebook Mobile), you lot can plow on the "Subscribe via SMS" checkbox to take that person'due south posts sent to your phone.

   After you click Send Request, you see a Friend Request Sent dialog box that lets you know Facebook has sent an invitation to your would-exist friend's email accost and posted a friend asking to her Facebook Abode page (Viewing Your Facebook Dwelling Page).

   Note

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

   

   Note

   If the person you're extending the virtual hand of friendship to is brand-new to Facebook, afterward you ship the friend request, Facebook displays a list of your current friends—just in case you want to ask them to join yous in extending their virtual hands.

   While y'all're waiting to hear back from your friend, a "Friend Requested" push button replaces the usual "Add as Friend" button next to her proper name in your search results, and when yous visit her profile, you come across an "Awaiting friend confirmation" label next to her proper noun. If your friend agrees to the friendship and responds either to the email or the Facebook asking (Finding People Who Are Facebook Members), Facebook adds your name to her friend list, and her proper noun to yours. Facebook besides sends yous a Notification (come across Customizing Your Mini Feed) letting yous know that she confirmed the friendship.

   Note

   In its quest to support polite social interactions, Facebook doesn't requite members a way to explicitly refuse friend invitations, but they can ignore them. If y'all've sent an invitation and oasis't heard back after a few days, try sending the person a message or poking him (Poking). Still no respond? Pitiful—you've been snubbed.

Responding to Friend Requests

When someone tries to add you to her friend list, two things happen: Facebook sends you lot an e-mail invitation and posts a petty notice on your Dwelling house page telling y'all that someone wants to be your friend. At that point, you've got 2 choices: You can ostend the request or ignore it, either on Facebook or right in your electronic mail program.

Confirming E-mail Requests

If you're the type of person who checks his electronic mail every hour (or every 5 minutes) but only logs onto Facebook every couple of days, you'll want to handle friend requests from within your email program. Here's how:

1. Expect in your electronic mail inbox for a message 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 you can confirm your friendship as explained in the next section.

Confirming Requests in Facebook

Some people log into Facebook whenever they're in front of a computer. If yous're one of them, it's easier to respond to friend requests from your Facebook Dwelling page than to fire up your electronic mail program and wade through your inbox looking for invitations. To confirm a friend request from inside Facebook:

1. At the top of any Facebook page, click the Friend Requests icon just to the right of the give-and-take "facebook" . The icon looks similar the heads and shoulders of ii piddling people (hover your cursor over the icons to see what each one is called). In a higher place it, y'all'll see a red icon indicating how many friend requests you have. When you click information technology, Facebook takes you to the Confirm Requests page.

   

   Note

   Friend requests also appear on the upper-right side of your Domicile folio under Requests. (If y'all don't have whatever friend requests, you won't come across any listed under Requests.) Just click the "friend asking(s)" link there to view them.

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

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   If you lot've never heard of the person who sent you the friend request, the message he sent doesn't make sense, or the two of you have no friends in mutual, so you probably want to click the person'southward name and check out his contour (and perhaps send him a "Practice I know yous?" message by clicking the Send Message link that appears below his profile film) to brand sure the request is on the up-and-upwardly.

   

   Tip

   To meet what friends you lot and your new friend take in common, Facebook lets you know by displaying a "[number] mutual friend(s)" link after the person's proper name on the Ostend Requests page. Simply click this link or, on the right side of her contour folio, click the Common Friends link to see the acquaintances you share.

Ignoring a Friend Request

In Facebook as in life, there will be times when someone extends the hand of friendship and you but don't want to shake it. After all, confirming a friend request doesn't only give your new pal (and all the Facebook applications he uses; run into Finding Applications) admission to a big chunk of your personal life; information technology too lets the world know that you lot recollect enough of the guy to declare yourself his friend. If you get a friend request from someone y'all've never heard of, say, or whose contour paints a picture so creepy you lot want to lock your virtual door, all you lot have to do is quietly remove all traces of the asking and go on with your life. To practise and then:

1. Sign into Facebook (Viewing Your Facebook Abode Page) if you lot're non already in that location .

2. At the peak of any Facebook page, click the Friend Requests icon merely to the right of the give-and-take "facebook" .

3. On the screen that appears, click Not Now . That'south all you have to do: Facebook instantly removes the red number in a higher place the Friend Requests icon on your Home page.

   Note

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

4. Back in your email program, delete the friend-request email .

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   If you say "not now" to a friend request and then notice yourself reconsidering later, no sweat—you can withal accept the request. To exercise so, at the top of whatsoever Facebook page, click the Friend Requests icon; then click See All Friend Requests. On the Requests page that appears, click the Meet Subconscious Requests link. After you exercise, Facebook gives you the chance to confirm the request, or delete information technology for proficient.

Viewing Your Friends

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

To run across more than than these 10 friends—or to see more details virtually each of your friends—you've got a few options. You can:

• See all of your friends in one fell dive . To do so:

  • On your profile page, click the Friends link that appears above the 10 random friends.

  • At the top correct of any Facebook screen, click the discussion Account, so click Edit Friends. On the Friends page that appears, click the Recently Interacted button and, from the driblet-down list, cull All Friends.

    

    Tip

    The dazzler and fun of Facebook lies in its who-knows-who connections, and the site makes information technology like shooting fish in a barrel to play matchmaker. To propose that a Facebook friend consider friending another of your pals: On ane friend's profile folio, ringlet downward until you see the Suggest Friends link on the left side of the page. Click the link and and then, in the dialog box that appears, click to plough on the checkbox next to as many of your other pals equally you like. When you finish, click Ship Suggestions.

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

    Tip

    To send a real-time chat bulletin to a friend, in the Chat window, simply click the proper noun of the person you want to chat with. A green dot means the friend is actively using the site (then is probably going to meet your message); a half-moon shape ways the friend is logged into Facebook but hasn't done anything on the site for ten minutes (and then may be out on a doughnut run). See Chatting for details on chatting.

  • See your friends organized by whether y'all know them from college, work, your surface area, or a common passion . At the height right of any Facebook screen, click the word Account, and then click Edit Friends. On the Friends folio that appears, click the Recently Interacted button and, from the drop-down menu, choose Search by Current City or Hometown (to run into friends grouped by where they live now or used to alive), School (to run into friends who belong to college networks), Workplace (to see friends who belong to work-related networks), or Interest (to see friends who listed Chihuahuas, chili cook-offs, or some other interest on their profiles). If yous've joined a network (Changing Account Info), the network'south proper noun appears in the drop-downward menu, besides; click information technology to show only those friends who vest to the aforementioned network.

Note

When yous choose Search past Electric current City, Hometown, School, Workplace, or Involvement, Facebook displays a text field yous tin can use to betoken which particular city, school, company, or hobby you're interested in grouping your friends past.

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

Organizing Your Friends

The options Facebook gives you for viewing your friends are groovy if you take only a handful of pals. But if you lot're a hardcore social butterfly with dozens or fifty-fifty hundreds of friends, you'll desire to organize them into separate lists that reflect how you categorize them in your mind.

For example, imagine that in add-on to your workplace network, yous're involved in a book order, a softball league, and a 12-step program. Creating a divide listing for each group of people lets you keep track of your different social circles at a glance. And because Facebook lets you send the same bulletin to all the friends on a unmarried list all at once (see Viewing a Friend List), command how much news about the listing you want to see on your News Feed (Chapter 6), and even invite everyone on the list to bring together the aforementioned Grouping (Affiliate 7) or Event (Chapter viii), creating separate Friend Lists helps yous communicate with folks quickly and reduces the risk of having your worlds collide.

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

Creating a Friend List

Facebook lets you create up to 100 unlike Friend Lists, each of which tin contain upwards to one,000 names. (Of form, unless you're a politician, y'all probably won't need anywhere near that many.) Here's how to create one:

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

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

   

3. In the "Enter a Name" field of the box that appears, type a proper noun for your list and and so hit Enter . In the following example, the list's name is "out-of-boondocks family".

   

4. Add some friends to your list . The easiest manner is to click the thumbnail pictures of the people you lot want to add to your list. (Clicking a thumbnail once turns information technology blue to let you know you've selected it; clicking again deselects it.) Alternatively, you lot can click the "Start Typing a Name" field and type in names ane at a time.

5. When you terminate, click the Create List button . Your newly created list appears on the Friends page (click Account, then Edit Friends to get in that location) below the Lists heading. It also appears on your Home page (How Facebook Works) when you lot click the Friends link on the left-hand side of the screen. When you view thumbnail pictures of whatsoever of the friends you lot've added to the list, the list's name appears next to those people's names.

   

   Tip

   Yous tin can add the same person to multiple Friend Lists.

Viewing a Friend Listing

To run into all the people on a item Friend Listing:

1. At the pinnacle correct of whatsoever Facebook screen, click the Account link and so click Edit Friends .

2. On the left side of the Friends folio that appears, click the name of the Friend List you want to view . Facebook displays the names and contour pictures of the friends y'all've added to that list.

If yous want to see what anybody on a item Friend List has been up to lately, head to your Habitation page by clicking the give-and-take "facebook" or "Home" 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 y'all want to see. (If yous have a lot of Friend Lists, you may need to click the More link to come across them all.) Facebook shows you lot those friends' recent activities.

Editing a Friend Listing

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

To rename a list:

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

2. Click the proper noun of the list yous want to alter .

3. On the folio that appears, click the Edit List push button .

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

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   Alternatively, you can change the name of a Friend List past clicking the Account link at the superlative of any Facebook screen and then clicking Edit Friends. On the left side of the page that appears, click the name of the listing you want to rename and then, at the top of the screen, click the Edit Proper noun link and then follow step iv above.

To add friends to an existing list:

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

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

3. Type someone's name into the "Type a friend'southward name to add" field (Facebook pops upwards a helpful listing later y'all brainstorm typing) . Alternatively, if y'all spot your friend'due south name in the Suggested For This List department on the right side of the list page, click the plus sign that appears next to that friend's proper name.

   Tip

   To add a handful of friends to an existing list quickly, click the Add Multiple button that appears on the list 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 you stop, click Salve List.

   

To delete friends from a listing, follow the steps for adding a friend to an existing list; merely in step 3, instead of typing a new name, mouse over the name of one of the folks already listed and so click the Edit Lists push that appears. Finally, on the drib-down list that appears, click the name of the list you lot 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 list quickly: At the top left of any Facebook folio, click the Account link and then click Edit Friends. On the left side of your Friends page, click the name of the list y'all want to thin. On the listing page that appears, click the Add together Multiple button. And so, in the dialog box that appears, scroll down to browse through all your pals, clicking each blue, checkmarked Facebook friend yous want to delete from your list (the checkmark disappears later on you click information technology to let you know that friend is off the listing). When you finish, click the Save List push.

Deleting a Friend List

Maybe you created a Friend Listing and find you never employ it. Or maybe the number of friends on one of your Friend Lists has dwindled to nothing. Whatever your reason, deleting a Friend Listing is piece of cake:

1. View the listing you lot 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 up is never easy, but sometimes you just gotta do it. Say i of your Facebook friends stabs you in the electronic back past posting inappropriate stuff on your Wall or spamming all your other friends, and yous really accept no choice but to cut him loose. To remove someone from your collection of Facebook friends:

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

2. On the folio that appears, click the Recently Interacted button and, from the drib-down list that appears, cull All Friends .

3. Roll to the name of the person yous desire to "unfriend," and 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're friends no more than.

   Tip

   Alternatively, if yous're on someone'south profile folio, scroll down the screen until y'all spot the Unfriend link on the left side, and then click information technology.

   

   Annotation

   Unlike quietly ignoring a friend request, unfriending someone sends a articulate message. Because Facebook friendship is reciprocal, removing a friend means you disappear from your one-time friend's All Friends list—an unmistakable brushoff.

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Source: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/facebook-the-missing/9781449303600/ch04.html

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