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Friend Lists are incredible tool on Facebook. They allow you to place your Friends into groups. Once you have created a list you can:

• Send invitations to events to a limited list of your friends.
• Send any type of status message to a specific list. [Learn More Here!]
• Suggest pages to a limited list of friends.

If used properly, Friend Lists can help solve the classic Facebook Problem: how to keep business and personal separate under one profile.

For example, I may want to create a Friend List called “Family.” I put only my family members (who are Facebook Friends) on the list. I can then send special status messages that only they will see. My other Friends would not see it. I can also send a status message that everyone BUT my family members see.

Here is how to make Friend Lists.

Go to Account > Edit Friends

1. Click the Create a List button.

In the next window, you can do the following:

2. Name Your List (i.e “Family,” “Business Contacts”)

3. Choose the Friends you want to put in the List. Note that you can search for Friends by name or simply browse their profile pics.

Click Create List

Managing Friend Lists

Things change. Relationships develop. People marry into the family. It is easy to manage your friend lists.

1. Once at the Edit Friends screen, you will see a list of your Friend Lists on the left side.
2. Click on a list name to see the people who are in the list.
3. When you roll your mouse over a Friend, you are given the option to Edit Lists for that Friend.
4. You can also search among your current Friends for new people to add.

Placing New Friends in Friend Lists

1. Now that you have created Friend Lists, you will notice that Facebook now offers to add new Friends to a list.
2. This appears as a button that says Add to List after you accept Friendship.
3. We highly recommend putting people in appropriate lists when you “friend” them, to avoid lots of management later.

Status Message play an important role on Facebook. I am often asked about keeping business and personal information separate on Facebook. This especially puzzles people who believe that any status message they share will automatically go to every friend they have.

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Facebook actually allows you to limit who sees your status message, link, photo, event, etc. You can:

• Limit to a specific Friend List (my favorite.)
• Limit to specific Friends by name.
• Exclude a Friend List or specific Friends from the message.

Here is how to do it. You may also want to check out the Post: How To Make Friend Lists in Facebook.

Enter your status and click the lock icon immediately down, next to the ‘Share’ button as shown in the picture

• You will get a drop down box with four options. Click  ‘Customize’

Enter your status message, then choose Customize.

• A pop-up window appears and from the drop down next to ‘these people’ select ‘specific people’ option.

Choose Specific People to limit Friends by name or by Friend List.

• Start typing the name of your Friends to whom you want that status should appear in the feed, or…
• …you can add a Friend List.  Just start typing the name of the list, and it should appear as an option.

Type the name of the Friend or Friend List and then choose from the options provided. In this example, I am choosing to post a message to a Friend List I have called "Family."

NOTE: Selected friends will never know that you have customized that status to appear in their feed. Rather it appears as a usual status update from you.

How to hide a status message from selected Friends?

• Enter your status and click the lock icon immediately down, next to the ‘Share’ button as shown in the picture
• You will get a drop down box with four options and click the ‘Customize’
• A pop-up window appears and at the bottom of that window you have the option of ‘Hide this from’. Start typing the names or Lists you want to hide.
• You can make these settings as default by checking the option ‘Make this default setting in the bottom’

Thanks to: iGuruTalks