Instead of Finding Friends on Facebook I Could Talk to My Family

Chapter 4. Finding and Adding Friends

In real life, your social network consists non but of people who work or written report where you do, simply as well of people you lot've formed ane-on-i relationships with: teachers, ex-sisters-in-law, bowling buddies, and so on. It's the same with Facebook: You first with a network of school or work buddies (see Chapter 3), so add friends one at a time. You can too use Facebook to expect up old friends and find new ones.

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

How Facebook Friends Piece of work

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

Notation

Facebook has no style of verifying the relationships between friends. Only one of the major differences between Facebook and MySpace—the other big social networking site—is that Facebook strongly encourages truthfulness. So, while having a zillion "friends" is considered a status symbol on MySpace, it'due south not such a big deal on Facebook—and may even evidence 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 really know doing a agglomeration of things you don't really care about gets erstwhile quick. On Facebook, the goal is to put together a manageable listing of people yous actually know—and actually care about keeping up with.

2 people become Facebook friends when ane person extends an invitation and the other person accepts, or confirms, it. When you become friends with someone on Facebook, three things happen:

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

  

  Notation

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

• You lot can see your friend's profile (and vice versa) even if he'south non in your network . This means you can see the Events he'southward planning to attend, the Groups he's joined, and all the other people he'south friends with, among other details. (The exception to this is if your friend has specifically blocked yous from seeing certain personal details, every bit explained on Fighting Back.)

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

  

Tip

Chapter 6 explains how to sign up for updates on your friends' Facebook activities and how to customize the updates your friends go about you.

Finding Friends

Before y'all can brand someone your friend, y'all start have to find that person on Facebook. The site gives yous four different ways to do this:

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

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

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

• Yous tin browse through the potential friends Facebook suggests for yous (based on criteria such equally both of you going to college at the same fourth dimension and sharing a mutual Facebook friend).

The following sections explicate all of your options.

Finding People Who Are Facebook Members

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

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

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

     

  2. If one of the profile pictures Facebook pops up looks like the person you're trying to find, bingo: You lot've plant your pal! Only click her picture to see her contour. Otherwise, click the "Encounter more than results" link at the bottom of the list of suggested people.

  3. On the search results page that appears, click the People link on the left-mitt side to weed out extraneous results, such every bit Groups and applications that happen to incorporate your searchee's proper name . Facebook displays a listing of people matching the name you typed in. If the list is gigantic, you lot can narrow your search using the driblet-down menu at the peak of the listing. Cull Location, Education, or Workplace from the menu, and and so blazon a location, schoolhouse, or workplace in the text box and click the Filter button.

     

     Tip

     In Facebook, all clickable links are bluish. If one of the names you run across in your search results (or on your Friends Listing, or anywhere else in Facebook) is blue, so clicking it takes you direct to that person's profile (or as much of the contour 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 tiptop right of any Facebook screen, click the Account link and, from the drop-down list, choose Edit Friends. (If you've already added a friend or two, you need to take ane extra pace at this point: Caput to the left side of the page that appears and click Detect Friends.) Then scroll down and click the Other Tools link. When you do, Facebook displays a list of links customized based on the information you've provided to the site, so they'll read something similar, "Observe Classmates From [your high school]," "Discover Classmates From [your college]," and "Find Coworkers From [your visitor]".

  

  

  Note

  If you're new to Facebook, you'll come across a "Find friends" link in the upper right of every screen, and a "Find people yous know" link in the eye of your Home page (y'all may need to whorl down a bit to come across it). Clicking either of these links takes you directly to the Find Friends page displaying a list of folks (along with ways to organize them to apace find the ones you desire 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 you already told Facebook yous graduated from Arizona State Academy in 1990, and so clicking "Notice Classmates From Arizona State University" displays a listing of members whose profiles mention that they attended ASU in 1990. If, on the other hand, you oasis't added any work-related details to your profile and click the "Notice current or by coworkers" link, Facebook displays a screen you can use to type in the company you want.

  

• Search for people y'all regularly email from your spider web-based electronic mail account . If you have a web-based electronic mail accost (such equally your_name@gmail.com, your_name@yahoo.com, or your_name@aol.com), yous can requite Facebook your email account password and let it scan your email address book for matching Facebook members. Here'southward how:

  At the top correct of any Facebook screen, click Account, then choose Edit Friends; if you already accept a few Facebook friends, you besides need to click Find 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, then click the Find Your Friends link that appears.)

  

  In the Discover Your Friends Wherever They Are section of the page that appears, merely click the electronic mail service you use to keep in touch with the most pals, type in your e-mail accost (and, if prompted, your e-mail countersign so Facebook can admission your email account), and so click the Find Friends push. If Facebook finds members who lucifer the electronic mail addresses in your address volume, it displays them; if information technology doesn't find any matches, it pops up a bulletin box request if yous'd like to try a unlike spider web-based email account.

  Notation

  Keep in mind that when you lot enter your e-mail account password, you're handing over some pretty sensitive info to Facebook. Subsequently all, that password is the virtual central to your e-mail account, your address book, and probably a bunch of other personal goodies. While Facebook is a reputable outfit and pledges not to store your password, y'all might want to skip this pace if this whole sharing concern makes yous queasy.

  

• Search for people you regularly instant bulletin . If you use an instant-messaging program like AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), ICQ Conversation, or Windows Live Messenger, y'all can add your IM screen name and countersign to your profile so tell Facebook scan your buddy listing for matching Facebook members. To do so: At the top correct of any Facebook screen, click the Profile link. On the left side of your profile page, click the Info link, and and then curl downwardly and click the Edit icon next to the Contact Data heading. In the IM Screen Names field, type your screen name, and and so cull your messaging service (AIM, Skype, or whatsoever). When you lot cease, click the Save Changes button. Then, at the acme left of your screen, click the Friend Requests icon (the silhouette of ii people), and then click the Find Your Friends link. Curl down the page that appears and click your instant messaging service (you lot won't meet it unless you've already added a screen proper name to your profile). Finally, type in the screen name and password you apply with your service and then click the Find Friends button. Facebook either displays matching Facebook members, or a bulletin box asking if you lot'd like to try your search again (you don't; if Facebook didn't find any matches the commencement time, it won't notice whatsoever the second).

  

• Search for people you regularly email using a listing of contacts . Depending on the electronic mail plan you use, you can export a list of email addresses from the programme and permit Facebook browse the listing for matching Facebook members. (If yous utilise a web-based electronic mail account, see Finding People Who Are Facebook Members instead.) To do so: On the right side of your Home page, click the "Find your friends" link (or, alternatively, at the top left of any screen, click the Friend Requests icon that's correct next to the Facebook logo, and then click Detect Your Friends). Curlicue down the page that appears and click the Other Tools link, so click the Upload Contact File link. In the section that appears, either tell Facebook to scan your Windows/Outlook/Outlook Express contacts by clicking the "Find my Windows Contacts" button, or (if y'all utilise some other email 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 lot see to create and upload an email contact file Facebook tin can read. Subsequently you stop, click Find Friends. Facebook either displays the Facebook members whose electronic mail addresses match those on your list, or a link you can use to get technical help.

• Leafage through the friend suggestions Facebook offers . Facebook uses what it knows about you (based on your profile and any friends yous've added) to come up up with a helpful list of folks you lot may know: Facebook members who went to the same school at the same time you did, for example, or friends of people yous're already friends with. These suggestions announced on the right side of your Habitation page under the People You May Know heading when you're new to Facebook, but yous tin can also become to them past clicking Account at the meridian of whatever screen and selecting Edit Friends. On the left side of the screen that appears, click Find Friends, and then scroll down to the People You lot May Know section. To come across more suggestions, click the More link. To tell Facebook to stop suggesting someone you lot know yous'd never befriend in a meg years (the ex-brother-in-law who dented your car that fourth dimension and never made proficient, for example), click the tiny X next to the person's name.

  

Finding People Who Aren't Facebook Members

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

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

2. On the Invite Your Friends page that appears, type in your not-Facebook-pals' email addresses in the "To:" field, separated past commas; then blazon 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 piece of cake manner to connect with each other one-on-ane based on shared interests and other profile information, such every bit political views, hobbies, or favorite bands. You simply typed in what kind of folks yous wanted to come across—for example, single moms in your expanse who like to knit—and bingo: Yous got an instant list of potential pals, consummate with a congenital-in conversation opener.

You tin can still search for kindred spirits on Facebook—after all, that'due south ane of the reasons Facebook is and so popular—but to go along from becoming a giant spam free-for-all, the site has changed the way you search. Rather than the advanced search feature you lot used to use, Facebook now offers iv different ways to find like-minded members:

• Friend suggestions . Every bit you just learned, Facebook suggests folks you might be interested in being friends with based on criteria such as your profile details and the friends you lot already accept. To come across these suggestions, follow the steps on Finding People Who Are Facebook Members.

• Groups . If you want to meet fellow history buffs or gardeners (or folks interested in any other topic or activity), Facebook's quondam Groups are a good place to commencement. To search through old Groups: At the top of whatever Facebook screen, type the topic you're interested in into the Search box, and so click the "See more results for [topic]" link that pops up. On the left side of the search results page that appears, click the Groups link to narrow your results.

  Tip

  Y'all can detect out more than almost Groups both old and new—including how to create a new ane—in Affiliate 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 listen). Still, depending on what kind of topic or activity y'all're searching for, information technology might yield good results. The more unusual the topic or activeness, the better your chances of finding what you're looking for. To search member details: At the elevation of any Facebook page, blazon what you're looking for into the Search box 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 conduct a keyword search, ready for a mount of results. Besides continue in mind that Facebook displays results no matter which member detail matches your keyword or what words or phrases surround information technology. For case, 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, among a zillion other results. To dwelling in on Facebook members who live in a certain city, attend a certain school, or work at a certain company (based on their Facebook profiles), select Location, Workplace, or School at the pinnacle of the search results page, type in your criteria, and and so click the Filter button.

• Third-party search applications . If you don't detect what (or who) you're looking for using Facebook's search feature, you can endeavor a search application (encounter Facebook Applications: An Overview for the scoop on Facebook applications). To notice a search application: At the top of whatever Facebook screen, type search in the Search field, click the magnifying glass icon, 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 piece of work a lilliputian differently. So afterwards you find 1 you think looks interesting, you lot'll want to spend a couple minutes checking out its reviews and playing with information technology to see if it works for you. To learn more than near Facebook applications, flip to Chapter 13.

Inviting People to Be Your Friend

You can't just add people to your friend list willy-nilly; they have to be Facebook members and hold 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 lot want to befriend (see Finding New Friends) .

   Notation

   If you send a friend request to someone who can't normally run across your contour—she's not in your network, for example—Facebook temporarily grants that person access to the basic, work-related, and instruction-related portions of your profile (Viewing Your Profile) and so she can brand an informed decision near whether or not to have your invitation.

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

   Notation

   If you don't meet the "Add together as Friend" push, it's because the person you're trying to befriend has adjusted her privacy settings to cake friend requests (see Chapter 14 for details).

   

3. Fill out the confirmation box that appears and then click Ship Request . In the confirmation box, Facebook gives you lot the option of including a note along with your asking; only click the "Add a personal message" link. You may besides meet a couple of other options: If you've created whatsoever Friend Lists (Organizing Your Friends), you can click the "Add to List" button to add the person to a Friend Listing (assuming she accepts your request). And if you've activated your cellphone with Facebook (see Setting Upward Facebook Mobile), you tin can turn on the "Subscribe via SMS" checkbox to have that person'south posts sent to your phone.

   Later on you click Send Asking, you see a Friend Asking Sent dialog box that lets you lot know Facebook has sent an invitation to your would-be friend's e-mail accost and posted a friend request to her Facebook Domicile page (Viewing Your Facebook Home 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 as Friend" if you're interested, or Close if you're not.

   

   Note

   If the person you're extending the virtual mitt of friendship to is brand-new to Facebook, afterward you send the friend request, Facebook displays a listing of your current friends—just in case y'all want to inquire them to join you in extending their virtual hands.

   While you're waiting to hear back from your friend, a "Friend Requested" button replaces the usual "Add equally Friend" button side by side to her name in your search results, and when you visit her profile, you lot run across an "Awaiting friend confirmation" label 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 name to her friend list, and her name to yours. Facebook besides sends you a Notification (run across Customizing Your Mini Feed) letting you lot know that she confirmed the friendship.

   Note

   In its quest to support polite social interactions, Facebook doesn't give members a fashion to explicitly turn down friend invitations, merely they can ignore them. If y'all've sent an invitation and haven't heard back after a few days, try sending the person a bulletin or poking him (Poking). Still no answer? Lamentable—you've been snubbed.

Responding to Friend Requests

When someone tries to add together you to her friend list, 2 things happen: Facebook sends you an email invitation and posts a petty detect on your Dwelling house page telling you that someone wants to be your friend. At that betoken, you've got two choices: Y'all can confirm the asking or ignore it, either on Facebook or correct in your e-mail program.

Confirming Email Requests

If you're the type of person who checks his email every hour (or every 5 minutes) simply only logs onto Facebook every couple of days, you'll want to handle friend requests from inside your email program. Hither'due south how:

1. Await in your e-mail inbox for a message with the subject "[Somebody] wants to be friends on Facebook."

   

2. Open the message and click the greenish Ostend Friend button or the confirmation link . Doing so whisks you to the Facebook page where you can confirm your friendship as explained in the side by side section.

Confirming Requests in Facebook

Some people log into Facebook whenever they're in front of a computer. If you lot're one of them, it'south easier to respond to friend requests from your Facebook Domicile page than to fire upward your email programme and wade through your inbox looking for invitations. To confirm a friend asking from inside Facebook:

1. At the elevation of whatever Facebook folio, click the Friend Requests icon just to the right of the word "facebook" . The icon looks like the heads and shoulders of ii little people (hover your cursor over the icons to see what each one is called). Above it, you lot'll see a red icon indicating how many friend requests you take. When yous click information technology, Facebook takes you to the Confirm Requests page.

   

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   Friend requests besides appear on the upper-right side of your Habitation page under Requests. (If you lot don't have whatsoever friend requests, you won't see any listed under Requests.) Simply click the "friend request(s)" link at that place to view them.

2. Make certain you want to accept the asking, then click Confirm . After yous click Ostend, you're Facebook friends with that person. Piece of cake, huh?

   Note

   If you'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, then you lot probably want to click the person's name and check out his profile (and perhaps send him a "Exercise I know you?" message by clicking the Send Message link that appears below his profile picture) to make sure the request is on the upwardly-and-up.

   

   Tip

   To run into what friends you and your new friend take in common, Facebook lets you lot know by displaying a "[number] common friend(s)" link subsequently the person's name on the Confirm Requests folio. Just click this link or, on the right side of her contour folio, click the Mutual 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 lot but don't want to milkshake it. After all, confirming a friend request doesn't only give your new pal (and all the Facebook applications he uses; see Finding Applications) access to a big chunk of your personal life; information technology likewise lets the world know that you lot think enough of the guy to declare yourself his friend. If you lot get a friend request from someone you've never heard of, say, or whose profile paints a moving picture so creepy you lot want to lock your virtual door, all you lot take to practise is quietly remove all traces of the asking and get on with your life. To do and so:

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

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

3. On the screen that appears, click Not Now . That's all you have to do: Facebook instantly removes the red number above the Friend Requests icon on your Dwelling house page.

   Note

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

4. Dorsum in your email program, delete the friend-asking email .

   Notation

   If you say "non at present" to a friend asking and then discover yourself reconsidering later, no sweat—you can still accept the request. To do so, at the top of whatever Facebook folio, click the Friend Requests icon; then click Come across All Friend Requests. On the Requests folio that appears, click the Run into Hidden Requests link. After you lot practice, Facebook gives you lot the risk to confirm the request, or delete it for proficient.

Viewing Your Friends

Facebook automatically displays 10 randomly selected friends on the left side of your contour (yous may need to roll down to see it).

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

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

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

  • At the top right of any Facebook screen, click the discussion Account, and and then click Edit Friends. On the Friends page that appears, click the Recently Interacted push and, from the drop-downwards list, cull All Friends.

    

    Tip

    The dazzler and fun of Facebook lies in its who-knows-who connections, and the site makes it easy to play matchmaker. To suggest that a Facebook friend consider friending another of your pals: On i friend's contour page, scroll down until you see the Advise Friends link on the left side of the page. Click the link and so, in the dialog box that appears, click to plow on the checkbox next to as many of your other pals as yous like. When you finish, click Send Suggestions.

  • See friends who are online right this minute . At the lesser right of whatever Facebook screen, the number that appears to the right of the word "Chat" tells you how many of your Facebook friends are currently logged into the site. (The word "Offline" may appear 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 ship a real-time chat message to a friend, in the Conversation window, simply click the name of the person you want to conversation with. A dark-green dot means the friend is actively using the site (and so is probably going to see your bulletin); a one-half-moon shape means the friend is logged into Facebook but hasn't done annihilation on the site for 10 minutes (so may be out on a doughnut run). Meet Chatting for details on chatting.

  • Encounter your friends organized past whether you know them from higher, piece of work, your expanse, or a mutual passion . At the tiptop right of any Facebook screen, click the word Account, and then click Edit Friends. On the Friends page that appears, click the Recently Interacted button and, from the drop-downwardly menu, choose Search by Electric current City or Hometown (to see friends grouped past where they live now or used to live), Schoolhouse (to see friends who belong to college networks), Workplace (to see friends who belong to work-related networks), or Involvement (to encounter friends who listed Chihuahuas, chili cook-offs, or some other involvement on their profiles). If you've joined a network (Changing Account Info), the network's name appears in the drop-downwards menu, too; click it to show just those friends who belong to the aforementioned network.

Notation

When you choose Search past Current City, Hometown, Schoolhouse, Workplace, or Interest, Facebook displays a text field y'all tin utilise to betoken which particular urban center, school, company, or hobby you're interested in group your friends by.

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

Organizing Your Friends

The options Facebook gives you for viewing your friends are great if you take only a scattering of pals. But if you're a hardcore social butterfly with dozens or even hundreds of friends, you'll want to organize them into carve up lists that reflect how you categorize them in your mind.

For instance, imagine that in addition to your workplace network, you're involved in a volume club, a softball league, and a 12-step program. Creating a dissever list for each grouping of people lets you lot go along track of your different social circles at a glance. And because Facebook lets you ship the aforementioned bulletin to all the friends on a single list all at once (run into Viewing a Friend List), control how much news well-nigh the list you want to meet on your News Feed (Affiliate 6), and even invite everyone on the list to join the same Grouping (Chapter 7) or Event (Chapter viii), creating carve up Friend Lists helps you communicate with folks quickly and reduces the take chances of having your worlds collide.

Note

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

Creating a Friend List

Facebook lets you create upward to 100 different Friend Lists, each of which can contain up to i,000 names. (Of class, unless you're a politician, you probably won't demand anywhere nigh that many.) Here'due south how to create ane:

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

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

   

3. In the "Enter a Name" field of the box that appears, type a name for your list and then hit Enter . In the following example, the listing'southward name is "out-of-town family".

   

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

5. When y'all finish, click the Create List push button . Your newly created list appears on the Friends page (click Business relationship, then Edit Friends to get there) beneath the Lists heading. It also appears on your Home page (How Facebook Works) when yous click the Friends link on the left-hand side of the screen. When you view thumbnail pictures of any of the friends yous've added to the list, the listing'south name appears next to those people's names.

   

   Tip

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

Viewing a Friend List

To run across all the people on a particular Friend Listing:

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

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

If you lot want to see what everyone on a particular Friend List has been up to lately, head to your Home page by clicking the word "facebook" or "Home" at the top of whatever screen. On the left side of the screen, click the Friends link, and then click the name of the list you want to come across. (If you take a lot of Friend Lists, you may need to click the More link to see them all.) Facebook shows you those friends' contempo activities.

Editing a Friend List

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

To rename a list:

1. Go to the left side of your Abode folio and click the Friends link . Facebook displays all your Friend Lists below 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 upwardly, click the Edit link and and so make your changes. When you terminate, click the Salvage List push button .

   Annotation

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

To add friends to an existing listing:

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

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

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

   Tip

   To add a scattering of friends to an existing listing rapidly, click the Add Multiple button that appears on the listing folio. In the dialog box that appears, scroll to browse through all your pals, clicking each Facebook friend you lot desire to add to your list. When you finish, click Relieve List.

   

To delete friends from a listing, follow the steps for calculation a friend to an existing list; but in step 3, instead of typing a new name, mouse over the proper noun of one of the folks already listed and and so click the Edit Lists button that appears. Finally, on the drib-down list that appears, click the name of the list you want to delete the friend from (it has a checkmark next to information technology). 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 page, click the Account link and then click Edit Friends. On the left side of your Friends page, click the proper name of the list you want to thin. On the list page that appears, click the Add Multiple button. Then, in the dialog box that appears, scroll downwards to browse through all your pals, clicking each bluish, checkmarked Facebook friend you want to delete from your list (the checkmark disappears afterwards you click it to let you know that friend is off the list). When y'all finish, click the Save Listing push button.

Deleting a Friend List

Maybe you created a Friend List and notice you never employ information technology. Or perchance the number of friends on ane of your Friend Lists has dwindled to cypher. Whatsoever your reason, deleting a Friend Listing is easy:

1. View the listing you want to delete (Creating a Friend Listing) .

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 upward is never like shooting fish in a barrel, just sometimes you just gotta exercise it. Say one of your Facebook friends stabs you in the electronic back past posting inappropriate stuff on your Wall or spamming all your other friends, and you really have no choice but to cut him loose. To remove someone from your drove of Facebook friends:

1. At the summit right of any Facebook folio, click the Account link and so click Edit Friends .

2. On the page that appears, click the Recently Interacted push button and, from the drop-down list that appears, cull All Friends .

3. Scroll to the name of the person you want to "unfriend," and and so click the X that appears to the right of his proper noun .

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

   Tip

   Alternatively, if you're on someone's profile page, scroll down the screen until you spot the Unfriend link on the left side, and then click it.

   

   Annotation

   Unlike quietly ignoring a friend request, unfriending someone sends a clear bulletin. Because Facebook friendship is reciprocal, removing a friend ways you disappear from your former 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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