Facebook adds Friend Lists

I just discovered that Facebook now allows you to create and organise your friends into lists! This is fantastic as I have over 1,000 friends, and often not all of them are close enough that I want to monitor daily! This will really allow users to have better control over what they see, and from whom. I was getting a bit annoyed with not being able to create lists such as “Family” or “Business Contacts”.

This will really turn Facebook into a far more viable tool for managing social network contacts, IMHO.

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  1. Michelle Clarke Says:
    December 21, 2007 at 10:24 am

    Vin, do yo ever have an empty inbox? 155 emails on Facebook alone? lol, it never ends, does it? Have a wonderful holiday, see you in 2008. ;-)

  2. Michelle Clarke Says:
    December 21, 2007 at 8:24 am

    Vin, do yo ever have an empty inbox? 155 emails on Facebook alone? lol, it never ends, does it? Have a wonderful holiday, see you in 2008. ;-)

  3. Mike Mothner Says:
    December 21, 2007 at 7:48 pm

    Definitely a great new tool on Facebook but now with this option users should be allowed to decide what level of access each group can have…thereby separating what your friends can see vs. your colleagues.

  4. Mike Mothner Says:
    December 21, 2007 at 5:48 pm

    Definitely a great new tool on Facebook but now with this option users should be allowed to decide what level of access each group can have…thereby separating what your friends can see vs. your colleagues.

  5. katy Says:
    December 23, 2007 at 7:33 pm

    Cool! I don’t have so many friend as you, but Facebook will come in handy.

  6. katy Says:
    December 23, 2007 at 5:33 pm

    Cool! I don’t have so many friend as you, but Facebook will come in handy.

  7. charl Says:
    December 24, 2007 at 9:41 pm

    Huge! I picked up on it yesterday.. Im glad it came around now before your friend counts get out of hand.. sorting through thousands of friends would be a bitch

  8. charl Says:
    December 24, 2007 at 7:41 pm

    Huge! I picked up on it yesterday.. Im glad it came around now before your friend counts get out of hand.. sorting through thousands of friends would be a bitch

  9. shawn Says:
    December 28, 2007 at 9:09 pm

    I’m glad I’m getting into Facebook more now…:-)

  10. shawn Says:
    December 28, 2007 at 9:10 pm

    I’m glad I’m getting into Facebook more now…:-)

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  11. shawn Says:
    December 28, 2007 at 7:09 pm

    I’m glad I’m getting into Facebook more now…:-)

  12. shawn Says:
    December 28, 2007 at 7:10 pm

    I’m glad I’m getting into Facebook more now…:-)

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  13. nüchtern Says:
    January 3, 2008 at 12:44 am

    those features are cool but not for the normalo-user i guess?! everything becomes a bit much eh.

  14. nüchtern Says:
    January 2, 2008 at 10:44 pm

    those features are cool but not for the normalo-user i guess?! everything becomes a bit much eh.

  15. property select Says:
    January 10, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    this tool is a complete let down. what we all need is something that we can use to categorize friends and give them different permissions to view our own content, and the option not to hear about their content/activites.

    for those people who now have more than a couple of hundred friends, this is what is needed. i’m sick of the news feed being cluttered with actions of people i hardly know.

  16. property select Says:
    January 10, 2008 at 11:59 am

    this tool is a complete let down. what we all need is something that we can use to categorize friends and give them different permissions to view our own content, and the option not to hear about their content/activites.

    for those people who now have more than a couple of hundred friends, this is what is needed. i’m sick of the news feed being cluttered with actions of people i hardly know.

  17. Wiki Hoe Doe ik Says:
    January 15, 2008 at 12:59 am

    I like the new functionality, but categorization is missing. I guess it is still within beta

  18. Wiki Hoe Doe ik Says:
    January 14, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    I like the new functionality, but categorization is missing. I guess it is still within beta

  19. hypotheek Says:
    March 17, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    Thanx for this information about facebook.

  20. hypotheek Says:
    March 17, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    Thanx for this information about facebook.

  21. MSN hacken Says:
    March 25, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    I never liked and used Facebook. I will give it a try again, but I don’t know if it is that useful to me.

  22. MSN hacken Says:
    March 25, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    I never liked and used Facebook. I will give it a try again, but I don’t know if it is that useful to me.

  23. Matthew Cook Says:
    March 28, 2008 at 9:10 pm

    I can honestly say I have never used facebook! I have never created an account or even visited the site! How is that possible?

  24. Matthew Cook Says:
    March 28, 2008 at 7:10 pm

    I can honestly say I have never used facebook! I have never created an account or even visited the site! How is that possible?

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  27. casino-man Says:
    April 24, 2008 at 10:52 am

    facebook is a bit of a tricky utility. whilst its great to meet ol friends it exposes some elements of your life taht you dont want anybody to see. i once had a meeting with a business partner before that i looked at her facebook profile and saw all her activities and people she knew and a few “habits”. keep your facbook privacy close to you.

  28. casino-man Says:
    April 24, 2008 at 8:52 am

    facebook is a bit of a tricky utility. whilst its great to meet ol friends it exposes some elements of your life taht you dont want anybody to see. i once had a meeting with a business partner before that i looked at her facebook profile and saw all her activities and people she knew and a few “habits”. keep your facbook privacy close to you.

  29. mercedes benz auto Says:
    July 23, 2008 at 5:27 pm

    @Casino-man: unfortunatelly your statement is true. But this is also true for other socal media. Your real friends will be watching and everybody else can be watching…

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    July 24, 2008 at 12:27 am

    @Casino-man: unfortunatelly your statement is true. But this is also true for other socal media. Your real friends will be watching and everybody else can be watching…

  31. financieel advies Says:
    August 4, 2008 at 5:04 am

    Facebook is a really good place to keep in touch with your friends and relatives. I prefer LinkedIn for business contacts. Even now Facebook allows us to create and organise our friends into lists, I still keep Facebook for friends only.

  32. financieel advies Says:
    August 4, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    Facebook is a really good place to keep in touch with your friends and relatives. I prefer LinkedIn for business contacts. Even now Facebook allows us to create and organise our friends into lists, I still keep Facebook for friends only.

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    November 15, 2008 at 2:00 pm

    I agree with property select that its a bit of a let down for the reasons he stated.

  34. George Commodore Says:
    November 27, 2008 at 6:36 am

    @ all: at this moment I use Facebook and Plaxo. I don´t want to sign up for all the different online communities. But, a lot of mij friends use LinkedIn and/or Xing.
    Is there a tool or piece of software that is able to make a connection between all the users (my friends), without me having to sign up for all the different communities? Regards George

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    June 22, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    This is one of the reasons why Facebook has become a lot of people's favorite site for social networking, with the exception of Twitter now of course.

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    July 3, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    yeah I agree with Baby, facebook was great
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