How to Add Someone You Dont Know to a Group Facebook

Chapter 4. Finding and Adding Friends

In real life, your social network consists not just of people who work or written report where you do, just likewise of people you lot've formed one-on-i relationships with: teachers, ex-sisters-in-police, bowling buddies, and so on. It'southward the same with Facebook: You start with a network of school or work buddies (see Affiliate three), and then add together friends 1 at a time. You can too employ Facebook to expect upwards old friends and find new ones.

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

How Facebook Friends Work

In the world of Facebook, a friend is any Facebook member who has agreed that you two have something in mutual. Maybe you play on the same softball team, volunteer at the local animal shelter together, or keep running into each other at parties thrown by the same ex-roommate. Peradventure 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 y'all both agree that you know each other.

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Facebook has no style 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 status symbol on MySpace, it's not such a big deal on Facebook—and may even evidence annoying. Because Facebook lards your domicile page with news of your "friends' " activities, having to weed through a agglomeration of news about people you don't actually know doing a bunch of things you don't really intendance near gets old quick. On Facebook, the goal is to put together a manageable list of people you actually know—and actually intendance about keeping upwardly with.

Ii people become Facebook friends when one person extends an invitation and the other person accepts, or confirms, information technology. When you lot become friends with someone on Facebook, three things happen:

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

  

  Note

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

• You tin see your friend'due south contour (and vice versa) even if he's not in your network . This ways you can see the Events he's planning to attend, the Groups he's joined, and all the other people he's friends with, among other details. (The exception to this is if your friend has specifically blocked you from seeing sure personal details, as explained on Fighting Back.)

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

  

Tip

Affiliate vi explains how to sign up for updates on your friends' Facebook activities and how to customize the updates your friends go most you lot.

Finding Friends

Before you lot tin make someone your friend, you lot first have to find that person on Facebook. The site gives yous four different ways to exercise this:

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

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

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

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

The post-obit sections explain all of your options.

Finding People Who Are Facebook Members

Some of your existent-life friends and acquaintances might already be on Facebook. To find them, use 1 of the following search methods:

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

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

     

  2. If ane of the profile pictures Facebook pops upwardly looks similar the person y'all're trying to notice, bingo: Yous've found your pal! Simply click her movie to see her profile. Otherwise, click the "See more 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-paw side to weed out extraneous results, such every bit Groups and applications that happen to contain your searchee'southward name . Facebook displays a list of people matching the name you typed in. If the listing is gigantic, yous tin can narrow your search using the drop-downward menu at the top of the listing. Choose Location, Didactics, or Workplace from the menu, and then type a location, school, or workplace in the text box and click the Filter push.

     

     Tip

     In Facebook, all clickable links are blue. If one of the names you see in your search results (or on your Friends List, or anywhere else in Facebook) is blue, then clicking it takes you direct to that person's profile (or as much of the profile as the person has granted you admission to; encounter Controlling Who Sees Your Profile, Contact, and Friend Info).

• Search for Facebook members who are classmates, ex-classmates, or coworkers . At the pinnacle right of whatever Facebook screen, click the Business relationship link and, from the driblet-downwardly list, choose Edit Friends. (If you've already added a friend or two, you need to accept one extra step at this point: Caput to the left side of the page that appears and click Find Friends.) And then gyre down and click the Other Tools link. When you practise, Facebook displays a list of links customized based on the information y'all've provided to the site, so they'll read something like, "Find Classmates From [your loftier schoolhouse]," "Observe Classmates From [your college]," and "Find Coworkers From [your company]".

  

  

  Note

  If you're new to Facebook, you'll see a "Notice friends" link in the upper correct of every screen, and a "Detect people you know" link in the middle of your Home page (you lot may need to scroll down a fleck to run across it). Clicking either of these links takes you lot directly to the Detect Friends folio displaying a list of folks (forth with ways to organize them to quickly find the ones you desire to befriend).

  The next screen that appears depends on which link you click and how many details you added to your profile. For example, if you already told Facebook you lot graduated from Arizona State University in 1990, and so clicking "Detect 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 contour and click the "Detect current or by coworkers" link, Facebook displays a screen you lot can utilize to type in the company yous desire.

  

• Search for people you regularly email from your spider web-based email account . If you have a spider web-based e-mail accost (such as your_name@gmail.com, your_name@yahoo.com, or your_name@aol.com), y'all can give Facebook your electronic mail business relationship password and let information technology scan your email address volume for matching Facebook members. Here's how:

  At the top right of whatever Facebook screen, click Account, then choose Edit Friends; if you already have a few Facebook friends, you likewise need to click Find Friends on the left side of the Friends screen. (Alternatively, yous can click the ii-headed Friend Requests icon that appears to the firsthand correct of the Facebook logo in the upper left of whatever screen, and so click the Notice Your Friends link that appears.)

  

  In the Detect Your Friends Wherever They Are section of the page that appears, simply click the email service you utilise to keep in touch with the most pals, type in your email address (and, if prompted, your email password and so Facebook can access your email account), so click the Find Friends push button. If Facebook finds members who lucifer the email addresses in your address book, it displays them; if it doesn't find any matches, it pops upwards a message box asking if you lot'd like to try a different web-based electronic mail account.

  Note

  Continue in heed that when you enter your electronic mail account password, you're handing over some pretty sensitive info to Facebook. Later all, that password is the virtual primal to your email 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, you lot might desire to skip this step if this whole sharing business makes you queasy.

  

• Search for people you regularly instant message . If you utilise an instant-messaging programme like AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), ICQ Chat, or Windows Live Messenger, you can add your IM screen name and password to your contour then tell Facebook browse your buddy list for matching Facebook members. To do so: At the top correct of whatever Facebook screen, click the Profile link. On the left side of your profile page, click the Info link, and then 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, then cull your messaging service (AIM, Skype, or whatever). When you cease, click the Save Changes button. Then, at the top left of your screen, click the Friend Requests icon (the silhouette of two people), and and so click the Find Your Friends link. Curlicue downwards the page that appears and click your instant messaging service (you won't meet it unless y'all've already added a screen name to your profile). Finally, blazon in the screen name and password y'all employ with your service and then click the Find Friends button. Facebook either displays matching Facebook members, or a message box asking if you'd like to endeavor your search again (you lot don't; if Facebook didn't find whatsoever matches the first time, information technology won't detect whatever the second).

  

• Search for people y'all regularly email using a list of contacts . Depending on the electronic mail plan you apply, yous tin can export a list of email addresses from the programme and let Facebook browse the list for matching Facebook members. (If you employ a spider web-based e-mail account, see Finding People Who Are Facebook Members instead.) To practise so: On the right side of your Dwelling page, click the "Find your friends" link (or, alternatively, at the top left of any screen, click the Friend Requests icon that'due south right next to the Facebook logo, and then click Notice Your Friends). Curl down the folio that appears and click the Other Tools link, then click the Upload Contact File link. In the department that appears, either tell Facebook to scan your Windows/Outlook/Outlook Express contacts by clicking the "Find my Windows Contacts" button, or (if you lot apply another email program, such as Mozilla Thunderbird or Mac OS X Accost Book) click the "How to create a contact file…" link and so the name of the appropriate email programme. Then follow the instructions you see to create and upload an e-mail contact file Facebook tin read. Later on you finish, click Find Friends. Facebook either displays the Facebook members whose email addresses match those on your listing, or a link you can use to get technical help.

• Foliage through the friend suggestions Facebook offers . Facebook uses what it knows well-nigh y'all (based on your profile and any friends yous've added) to come up with a helpful list of folks yous may know: Facebook members who went to the aforementioned school at the same time you did, for example, or friends of people you're already friends with. These suggestions announced on the right side of your Home page under the People You May Know heading when you lot're new to Facebook, only you can too get to them by clicking Account at the top of any screen and selecting Edit Friends. On the left side of the screen that appears, click Find Friends, and then curl downward to the People Y'all May Know section. To see more suggestions, click the More than link. To tell Facebook to terminate suggesting someone you know you lot'd never befriend in a million years (the ex-brother-in-police who dented your car that time and never made good, for case), click the tiny X adjacent to the person's name.

  

Finding People Who Aren't Facebook Members

You lot can't add people to your friend list unless they're Facebook members. Only say you've got a few real-life pals you wish would sign upward for the site so y'all could keep in touch more easily. Facebook gives you lot an easy way to invite these people to join:

1. On the correct side of your Facebook Abode page, observe the Get Connected section (you may have to gyre down) and click the "Invite them now" link .

2. On the Invite Your Friends page that appears, type in your non-Facebook-pals' email addresses in the "To:" field, separated by commas; then type in a quick message (if you like) and click Invite . Facebook sends invitations to all the addresses yous listed.

   

   

Finding New Friends

Back in the olden days of Facebook, the site gave its members an easy mode to connect with each other one-on-one based on shared interests and other profile data, such as political views, hobbies, or favorite bands. Y'all but typed in what kind of folks you wanted to meet—for example, single moms in your expanse who like to knit—and bingo: Y'all got an instant list of potential pals, complete with a built-in chat opener.

Y'all can still search for kindred spirits on Facebook—subsequently all, that's one of the reasons Facebook is so popular—but to keep from becoming a giant spam free-for-all, the site has inverse the way you search. Rather than the advanced search characteristic you used to use, Facebook now offers four different ways to find like-minded members:

• Friend suggestions . Every bit you merely learned, Facebook suggests folks y'all might be interested in beingness friends with based on criteria such equally your profile details and the friends y'all already accept. To see these suggestions, follow the steps on Finding People Who Are Facebook Members.

• Groups . If you want to meet young man history buffs or gardeners (or folks interested in any other topic or activeness), Facebook's old Groups are a good place to kickoff. To search through old Groups: At the top of whatsoever Facebook screen, blazon the topic you're interested in into the Search box, and and then click the "Run into more results for [topic]" link that pops upwards. On the left side of the search results page that appears, click the Groups link to narrow your results.

  Tip

  You tin can detect out more nearly Groups both quondam and new—including how to create a new one—in Chapter seven.

  

• 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 proficient results. The more than unusual the topic or activity, the improve your chances of finding what you lot're looking for. To search member details: At the height of any Facebook page, type what you lot're looking for into the Search box and so click the magnifying drinking 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 y'all decide to comport a keyword search, prepare for a mountain of results. Besides keep in heed that Facebook displays results no matter which member item 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 ring, amid a zillion other results. To home in on Facebook members who live in a certain urban center, nourish a sure school, or work at a certain company (based on their Facebook profiles), select Location, Workplace, or Schoolhouse at the height of the search results page, type in your criteria, then click the Filter push.

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

  

Note

Facebook applications vary in quality, and they all wait and work a little differently. So afterwards you find 1 you think looks interesting, you lot'll desire to spend a couple minutes checking out its reviews and playing with it to see if information technology works for you. To learn more about Facebook applications, flip to Affiliate 13.

Inviting People to Be Your Friend

Yous can't only add people to your friend list willy-nilly; they have to be Facebook members and agree 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 desire to befriend (see Finding New Friends) .

   Note

   If you send a friend request to someone who can't normally see your profile—she's non in your network, for example—Facebook temporarily grants that person access to the basic, work-related, and education-related portions of your profile (Viewing Your Profile) then she tin brand an informed decision about whether or not to accept your invitation.

2. If your search returns the person you're looking for, click the "Add together every bit Friend" button you run across to the right of the person's profile picture . Alternatively, click the person's name or picture to read a flake more about her and then, at the meridian of the potential friend's profile page, click the "Add every bit Friend" button. If you lot don't notice the person you lot're looking for, you tin can invite her to join Facebook (Finding People Who Aren't Facebook Members).

   Notation

   If you don't meet the "Add as Friend" button, it'south considering the person you're trying to befriend has adjusted her privacy settings to cake friend requests (come across Chapter fourteen for details).

   

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

   Afterward you click Transport Request, y'all encounter a Friend Asking Sent dialog box that lets yous know Facebook has sent an invitation to your would-be friend'south e-mail address and posted a friend asking to her Facebook Dwelling folio (Viewing Your Facebook Home Page).

   Note

   If you're new to Facebook, the Friend Asking Sent dialog box may include friend suggestions (friends of your soon-to-be-friend) for you lot to consider. Click "Add every bit Friend" if you're interested, or Shut if y'all're non.

   

   Notation

   If the person you're extending the virtual manus of friendship to is brand-new to Facebook, after yous send the friend asking, Facebook displays a list of your current friends—merely in case you lot want to enquire them to join y'all in extending their virtual hands.

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

   Note

   In its quest to support polite social interactions, Facebook doesn't give members a way to explicitly decline friend invitations, but they can ignore them. If yous've sent an invitation and oasis't heard dorsum after a few days, try sending the person a bulletin or poking him (Poking). Yet no answer? Sorry—you've been snubbed.

Responding to Friend Requests

When someone tries to add you to her friend list, 2 things happen: Facebook sends you an email invitation and posts a little find on your Home folio telling you lot that someone wants to exist your friend. At that signal, yous've got ii choices: You can confirm the request or ignore it, either on Facebook or right in your email programme.

Confirming Email Requests

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

1. Expect in your email inbox for a message with the subject "[Somebody] wants to be friends on Facebook."

   

2. Open up the message and click the green Ostend Friend button or the confirmation link . Doing and so whisks you to the Facebook page where you lot tin ostend your friendship as explained in the side by side section.

Confirming Requests in Facebook

Some people log into Facebook whenever they're in front end of a calculator. If y'all're one of them, information technology's easier to respond to friend requests from your Facebook Home folio than to burn upwards your email program and wade through your inbox looking for invitations. To confirm a friend asking from inside Facebook:

1. At the top of any Facebook folio, click the Friend Requests icon just to the correct of the word "facebook" . The icon looks like the heads and shoulders of two piffling people (hover your cursor over the icons to see what each one is chosen). Above information technology, you'll encounter a cherry icon indicating how many friend requests you take. When you lot click information technology, Facebook takes y'all to the Confirm Requests page.

   

   Note

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

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

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   If you've never heard of the person who sent you the friend request, the message he sent doesn't brand sense, or the 2 of you have no friends in common, then yous probably desire to click the person's name and check out his profile (and perhaps send him a "Do I know you?" bulletin by clicking the Send Bulletin link that appears beneath his contour picture) to make sure the request is on the up-and-up.

   

   Tip

   To see what friends you and your new friend have in common, Facebook lets you know by displaying a "[number] mutual friend(s)" link afterward the person's name on the Confirm Requests page. Simply click this link or, on the correct side of her profile page, click the Mutual Friends link to see the acquaintances you share.

Ignoring a Friend Asking

In Facebook every bit in life, there will be times when someone extends the hand of friendship and you just don't desire to shake it. Later all, confirming a friend request doesn't only give your new pal (and all the Facebook applications he uses; see Finding Applications) admission to a big chunk of your personal life; it also lets the globe know that you think enough of the guy to declare yourself his friend. If you become a friend request from someone you lot've never heard of, say, or whose profile paints a flick so creepy you desire to lock your virtual door, all y'all have to practice is quietly remove all traces of the request and become on with your life. To do so:

1. Sign into Facebook (Viewing Your Facebook Home Folio) if you're non already there .

2. At the acme of whatsoever Facebook page, click the Friend Requests icon but to the right of the word "facebook" .

3. On the screen that appears, click Not Now . That's all you take to do: Facebook instantly removes the red number higher up the Friend Requests icon on your Home page.

   Note

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

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

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   If y'all say "non now" to a friend request and and so find yourself reconsidering later, no sweat—you tin still take the request. To practice so, at the top of whatever Facebook page, click the Friend Requests icon; so click See All Friend Requests. On the Requests folio that appears, click the See Hidden Requests link. After you lot do, Facebook gives you the chance to ostend the request, or delete it for good.

Viewing Your Friends

Facebook automatically displays 10 randomly selected friends on the left side of your profile (you may need to scroll down to run across it).

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

• Meet all of your friends in ane vicious swoop . To exercise and so:

  • On your profile page, click the Friends link that appears to a higher place the x random friends.

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

    

    Tip

    The beauty and fun of Facebook lies in its who-knows-who connections, and the site makes information technology piece of cake to play matchmaker. To propose that a Facebook friend consider friending some other of your pals: On i friend's profile folio, roll down until you see the Advise Friends link on the left side of the page. Click the link and and so, in the dialog box that appears, click to plough on the checkbox adjacent to as many of your other pals every bit yous like. When you stop, click Send Suggestions.

  • Run into friends who are online right this infinitesimal . At the bottom right of any 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 give-and-take "Offline" may appear instead of a number.) Click the Chat link and a window pops up showing you exactly which of your friends are currently logged into Facebook.

    Tip

    To transport a real-fourth dimension chat message to a friend, in the Chat window, simply click the proper name of the person you lot desire to chat with. A green dot ways the friend is actively using the site (and and so is probably going to see your bulletin); a one-half-moon shape ways the friend is logged into Facebook simply hasn't done anything on the site for 10 minutes (then may exist out on a doughnut run). Encounter Chatting for details on chatting.

  • See your friends organized by whether you know them from college, work, your area, or a common passion . 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 button and, from the driblet-downward card, choose Search by Current City or Hometown (to see friends grouped by where they live now or used to live), School (to come across friends who belong to higher networks), Workplace (to see friends who belong to work-related networks), or Interest (to encounter friends who listed Chihuahuas, chili cook-offs, or some other interest on their profiles). If y'all've joined a network (Irresolute Account Info), the network's name appears in the drib-downwardly card, as well; click it to bear witness only those friends who vest to the same network.

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When you cull Search past Current Metropolis, Hometown, Schoolhouse, Workplace, or Interest, Facebook displays a text field you can use to indicate which particular city, schoolhouse, company, or hobby you're interested in grouping your friends by.

Note

A cool new characteristic called Friendship Pages lets you expect at the history of any Facebook friendship: posts you and a friend take written on each others' Walls over the years, Events you attended together, photos yous both appear in, and and so on. To take a trip downwardly memory lane, head to whatever friend'south profile page and click the Come across 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 you view Friendship Pages chronicling other folks' relationships.)

Organizing Your Friends

The options Facebook gives you lot for viewing your friends are peachy if you have only a handful of pals. Simply if you lot're a hardcore social butterfly with dozens or even hundreds of friends, you lot'll desire to organize them into separate lists that reflect how y'all categorize them in your mind.

For example, imagine that in improver to your workplace network, y'all're involved in a book club, a softball league, and a 12-step plan. Creating a divide list for each grouping of people lets you proceed rail of your different social circles at a glance. And because Facebook lets you lot ship the same message to all the friends on a single list all at once (see Viewing a Friend List), control how much news nearly the list you lot want to see on your News Feed (Affiliate 6), and even invite anybody on the list to join the same Grouping (Chapter 7) or Event (Affiliate eight), creating carve up Friend Lists helps you communicate with folks rapidly and reduces the risk of having your worlds collide.

Notation

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

Creating a Friend List

Facebook lets you create upwardly to 100 different Friend Lists, each of which can contain up to 1,000 names. (Of course, unless you're a politician, you probably won't need anywhere nigh that many.) Hither's how to create one:

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

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

   

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

   

4. Add some friends to your list . The easiest way is to click the thumbnail pictures of the people you desire to add to your listing. (Clicking a thumbnail in one case turns it blue to let you lot know yous've selected information technology; clicking again deselects it.) Alternatively, y'all tin can click the "Starting time Typing a Name" field and type in names one at a time.

5. When you finish, click the Create List button . Your newly created list appears on the Friends folio (click Account, then Edit Friends to get there) below the Lists heading. Information technology also appears on your Home page (How Facebook Works) when you 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 listing, the list's proper noun appears next to those people's names.

   

   Tip

   Yous tin add the same person to multiple Friend Lists.

Viewing a Friend Listing

To come across all the people on a detail Friend List:

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

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

If y'all want to run across what everyone on a particular Friend List has been up to lately, caput to your Habitation page by clicking the give-and-take "facebook" or "Habitation" at the top of any screen. On the left side of the screen, click the Friends link, and then click the name of the listing yous desire to encounter. (If you have a lot of Friend Lists, you lot may need to click the More link to see them all.) Facebook shows you those friends' recent activities.

Editing a Friend List

Online or off, social circles and friendships change over fourth dimension. After y'all've created a Friend List (Organizing Your Friends), you can change its proper noun, add together people to it, or delete folks from it.

To rename a listing:

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

2. Click the proper noun of the list yous desire to change .

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

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

   Note

   Alternatively, yous can change the name of a Friend List by clicking the Business relationship link at the height of any Facebook screen and and so clicking Edit Friends. On the left side of the folio that appears, click the name of the list you desire to rename and then, at the summit of the screen, click the Edit Proper noun link and then follow footstep 4 above.

To add friends to an existing list:

1. At the height left of any Facebook page, click the Account link 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'due south name into the "Type a friend's name to add together" field (Facebook pops up a helpful list afterward yous begin typing) . Alternatively, if yous spot your friend'south name in the Suggested For This List section 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 chop-chop, click the Add Multiple button that appears on the list page. In the dialog box that appears, whorl to scan through all your pals, clicking each Facebook friend you want to add to your list. When you lot finish, click Save List.

   

To delete friends from a listing, follow the steps for calculation a friend to an existing list; just in stride 3, instead of typing a new name, mouse over the proper name of ane of the folks already listed and then click the Edit Lists button that appears. Finally, on the drop-downward list that appears, click the name of the list you want to delete the friend from (information technology has a checkmark side by side to it). Facebook removes the person from that list and deletes the checkmark.

Tip

To delete a slew of friends from a list rapidly: 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 name of the list you want to thin. On the listing 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 blue, checkmarked Facebook friend you lot desire to delete from your list (the checkmark disappears after you click it to permit you lot know that friend is off the list). When yous finish, click the Save List button.

Deleting a Friend Listing

Maybe you created a Friend Listing and detect yous never employ information technology. Or maybe the number of friends on 1 of your Friend Lists has dwindled to zero. Any your reason, deleting a Friend List is easy:

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

2. Head to the bottom of the list and click the Delete Listing link . In the confirmation box that appears, click Confirm.

Breaking Upwards: Unfriending Friends

Breaking up is never easy, just sometimes you just gotta practice it. Say one of your Facebook friends stabs you lot in the electronic dorsum 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 collection of Facebook friends:

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

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

3. Coil to the name of the person you lot want to "unfriend," and then click the X that appears to the right of his proper name .

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 folio, scroll down the screen until y'all spot the Unfriend link on the left side, and so click it.

   

   Note

   Different quietly ignoring a friend request, unfriending someone sends a clear bulletin. Considering Facebook friendship is reciprocal, removing a friend means you disappear from your former friend's All Friends list—an unmistakable rebuff.

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

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