How to Unfriend Someone on Facebook

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">It happens to everyone: After a while, you start to feel like a few people are cluttering up Facebook for you and want to unfriend some. Maybe you just feel like you have too many friends, or maybe you and a friend have legitimately drifted apart. Maybe you had a big falling-out and just need a break. Don't worry; you can<i>unfriend</i> just like you friend people.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">To unfriend someone, do the following:</p><ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Go to the person's Timeline.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the Friends button.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A menu appears that is for assigning people to Friend Lists. The last item in this list is Unfriend.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Unfriend link.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A window pops up asking if you're sure you want to remove this friend.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Remove from Friends button.</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Take a moment of silence. Okay, that was long enough.</p></li></ol><p class="Tip" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> People aren't notified when you unfriend them, but people who care about you (that is, family, close friends) have a tendency to notice on their own that, hey, you're not in their list of friends anymore. This can sometimes lead to awkwardness, so it might be worth using your privacy settings to further limit these people's knowledge of your life <i>before </i>you unfriend them.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Lots of people go through periodic friend-cleaning. For example, after changing jobs or moving, you may notice that you want to keep in touch with some people from that chapter in your life; others, you just don't. Unfriend away.</p>

How to Unfriend Someone on Facebook

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How to Unfriend Someone on Facebook

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">It happens to everyone: After a while, you start to feel like a few people are cluttering up Facebook for you and want to unfriend some. Maybe you just feel like you have too many friends, or maybe you and a friend have legitimately drifted apart. Maybe you had a big falling-out and just need a break. Don't worry; you can<i>unfriend</i> just like you friend people.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">To unfriend someone, do the following:</p><ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Go to the person's Timeline.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the Friends button.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A menu appears that is for assigning people to Friend Lists. The last item in this list is Unfriend.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Unfriend link.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A window pops up asking if you're sure you want to remove this friend.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Remove from Friends button.</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Take a moment of silence. Okay, that was long enough.</p></li></ol><p class="Tip" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> People aren't notified when you unfriend them, but people who care about you (that is, family, close friends) have a tendency to notice on their own that, hey, you're not in their list of friends anymore. This can sometimes lead to awkwardness, so it might be worth using your privacy settings to further limit these people's knowledge of your life <i>before </i>you unfriend them.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Lots of people go through periodic friend-cleaning. For example, after changing jobs or moving, you may notice that you want to keep in touch with some people from that chapter in your life; others, you just don't. Unfriend away.</p>

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How to Create a Facebook Friend List

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Facebook Smart Lists can usually help you figure out whom you want to share your own posts with. But sometimes you may want a specific list that Facebook can't figure out. This might be a sub-sub-group, like all the people you played Frisbee with in college. In these cases, you can create your own list.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">To create a Friend List, follow these steps:</p><ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">From the Home page, look on the right side of the page for the News Feed menu.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the down arrow to expand the News Feed menu once and then click the See All link at the bottom of the menu to expand it even further.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This brings you to a list of all the different ways you can view News Feed, including seeing only certain types of stories or only stories from certain lists.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the Manage Lists option (the last item in the list).</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">The Manage Lists page appears. In other words, a page that lists all your lists.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Create List button in the upper-right corner.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The Create New List window appears.</p><img alt="image0.jpg" height="323" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/11/390211.image0.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="535"></li> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">In the List Name box, type the name of your list.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Maybe something like Dummies for the Dummies Team.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Add friends who belong on this list by typing their names in the Members box.</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Facebook autocompletes as you type. Press Enter when you highlight the correct friend's name.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click Create.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Now, wherever Friend Lists appear on Facebook, including where you set privacy, you have access to the new list you just created.</p> </li></ol><p class="Remember" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Friend Lists you create are private, so even if the list you're messaging is known in your mind as <i>Annoying Co-Workers</i><i>,</i> all that your annoying co-workers see is a list of names. Members of Smart Lists are able to see the name of a list they've been added to.</p>

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How to Create a Facebook Friend List

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Facebook Smart Lists can usually help you figure out whom you want to share your own posts with. But sometimes you may want a specific list that Facebook can't figure out. This might be a sub-sub-group, like all the people you played Frisbee with in college. In these cases, you can create your own list.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">To create a Friend List, follow these steps:</p><ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">From the Home page, look on the right side of the page for the News Feed menu.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the down arrow to expand the News Feed menu once and then click the See All link at the bottom of the menu to expand it even further.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This brings you to a list of all the different ways you can view News Feed, including seeing only certain types of stories or only stories from certain lists.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the Manage Lists option (the last item in the list).</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">The Manage Lists page appears. In other words, a page that lists all your lists.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Create List button in the upper-right corner.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The Create New List window appears.</p><img alt="image0.jpg" height="323" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/11/390211.image0.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="535"></li> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">In the List Name box, type the name of your list.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Maybe something like Dummies for the Dummies Team.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Add friends who belong on this list by typing their names in the Members box.</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Facebook autocompletes as you type. Press Enter when you highlight the correct friend's name.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click Create.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Now, wherever Friend Lists appear on Facebook, including where you set privacy, you have access to the new list you just created.</p> </li></ol><p class="Remember" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Friend Lists you create are private, so even if the list you're messaging is known in your mind as <i>Annoying Co-Workers</i><i>,</i> all that your annoying co-workers see is a list of names. Members of Smart Lists are able to see the name of a list they've been added to.</p>

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How to Edit Your Facebook Smart Lists

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><i>Smart Lists</i> are the lists thatFacebook makes on your behalf. These lists are created automatically based on your interactions with your friends and shared characteristics of your friends. Here are some common Smart Lists:</p> <ul class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <b>Close Friends: </b>Facebook creates this list based on things like people you interact with a lot on Facebook, people you appear in a lot of photos with, and so on.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <b>Acquaintances: </b>The opposite of the Close Friends list. This list is meant to be a place where you can cordon off the people you don't know as well. In fact, one of the default privacy options when you post something from the Share box is Friends Except Acquaintances, which is Facebook's way of saying, "Share this with my <i>real</i> friends only."</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Restricted: </b>This list is for people you want to add as friends but don't want to see posts that are visible to friends. In other words, people on this list see only posts that you choose to make public.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Family: </b>Based on information you've entered about your family, they may show up on this Smart List.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b><i><Your High School></i>: </b>If you've caught up with a lot of old friends on Facebook, a Smart List might be created so you can post photos from the reunion or share memories just with them.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b><i><Your college/university/workplace></i>:</b>Similar to a high school list, depending on the information your friends have listed on their profiles, additional Smart Lists may be created for these groups.</p> </li></ul><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Although Facebook is smart, it's not perfect. Although these lists will be mostly accurate, you may find that you have to do some editing to them. The accuracy of the lists may also depend on how you want to use your lists.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">For example, you may want your Family list to make it easy to share with just your immediate family and, therefore, need to remove the more distant members. Or you want it to be a giant family reunion all the time, in which case, you need to add some of the third and fourth cousins once removed to the mix.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">To edit a Smart List, follow these steps:</p><ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">From the Home page, look on the right side of the page for the News Feed menu.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the down arrow to expand the News Feed menu once and then click the See All link at the bottom of the menu to expand it even further.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> All your lists appear, along with links to categories of News Feeds you can look at, such as Music and Photos.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the list you want to edit.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Doing so takes you to that list's News Feed. On the right side of the page is an On This List section, where you can check out the current members of the list.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">To add people to a list, type their names in the text box in the On This List section.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Facebook autocompletes as you type. Select your friends' names when you see them.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">To remove people from a list, click Edit in the upper-right corner of the On This List section.</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A menu appears with options for changing what you see in this view.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click Add/Remove.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A pop-up window displays the names and pictures of all members of the list.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Hover over the person you want to remove.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A small X should appear in the upper-right corner of the person's picture.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the X.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Repeat Steps 7 and 8 for each person you want to remove.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Finish button when you're done.</p></li> </ol><p class="Tip" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">You can edit who is on a Smart List at any point in time.</p>

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How to Edit Your Facebook Smart Lists

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><i>Smart Lists</i> are the lists thatFacebook makes on your behalf. These lists are created automatically based on your interactions with your friends and shared characteristics of your friends. Here are some common Smart Lists:</p> <ul class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <b>Close Friends: </b>Facebook creates this list based on things like people you interact with a lot on Facebook, people you appear in a lot of photos with, and so on.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <b>Acquaintances: </b>The opposite of the Close Friends list. This list is meant to be a place where you can cordon off the people you don't know as well. In fact, one of the default privacy options when you post something from the Share box is Friends Except Acquaintances, which is Facebook's way of saying, "Share this with my <i>real</i> friends only."</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Restricted: </b>This list is for people you want to add as friends but don't want to see posts that are visible to friends. In other words, people on this list see only posts that you choose to make public.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Family: </b>Based on information you've entered about your family, they may show up on this Smart List.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b><i><Your High School></i>: </b>If you've caught up with a lot of old friends on Facebook, a Smart List might be created so you can post photos from the reunion or share memories just with them.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b><i><Your college/university/workplace></i>:</b>Similar to a high school list, depending on the information your friends have listed on their profiles, additional Smart Lists may be created for these groups.</p> </li></ul><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Although Facebook is smart, it's not perfect. Although these lists will be mostly accurate, you may find that you have to do some editing to them. The accuracy of the lists may also depend on how you want to use your lists.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">For example, you may want your Family list to make it easy to share with just your immediate family and, therefore, need to remove the more distant members. Or you want it to be a giant family reunion all the time, in which case, you need to add some of the third and fourth cousins once removed to the mix.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">To edit a Smart List, follow these steps:</p><ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">From the Home page, look on the right side of the page for the News Feed menu.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the down arrow to expand the News Feed menu once and then click the See All link at the bottom of the menu to expand it even further.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> All your lists appear, along with links to categories of News Feeds you can look at, such as Music and Photos.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the list you want to edit.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Doing so takes you to that list's News Feed. On the right side of the page is an On This List section, where you can check out the current members of the list.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">To add people to a list, type their names in the text box in the On This List section.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Facebook autocompletes as you type. Select your friends' names when you see them.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">To remove people from a list, click Edit in the upper-right corner of the On This List section.</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A menu appears with options for changing what you see in this view.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click Add/Remove.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A pop-up window displays the names and pictures of all members of the list.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Hover over the person you want to remove.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A small X should appear in the upper-right corner of the person's picture.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the X.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Repeat Steps 7 and 8 for each person you want to remove.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Finish button when you're done.</p></li> </ol><p class="Tip" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">You can edit who is on a Smart List at any point in time.</p>

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How to Manage Facebook Friend Lists

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><i>Friend Lists</i> (capital L) are subsets of your giant list of Facebook friends (lowercase l). Confused yet? Friend Lists are a way of organizing your friends into lists to make your Facebook experience even easier and more personalized to you and your types of friends. Organizing your friends into Friend Lists allows you to do the following:</p> <ul class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <i></i><b>Share different types of information with different sets of friends.</b> For example, your best friends may get to see your party photos, and your family may get to see your wedding photos. This is a custom privacy setting you can use all over Facebook.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>See a version of News Feed that shows only updates from people in that list. </b>You can make sure that you can easily zero in on updates from a certain group of people, which may be your family, or friends from college, or both. You can choose to view only News Feeds from those people.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Use Friend Lists in Chat.</b> You can show yourself as online or offline to different groups of people, or easily scan for certain types of friends currently online, such as social friends if you're looking for a dinner date or carpool friends if you need a ride.</p> </li></ul><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The options for how you create Friend Lists are virtually limitless. Your lists can be for silly things (Girls' Night Out Girls), real-world needs (Family), or general bucketing (co-workers).</p>

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How to Manage Facebook Friend Lists

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><i>Friend Lists</i> (capital L) are subsets of your giant list of Facebook friends (lowercase l). Confused yet? Friend Lists are a way of organizing your friends into lists to make your Facebook experience even easier and more personalized to you and your types of friends. Organizing your friends into Friend Lists allows you to do the following:</p> <ul class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <i></i><b>Share different types of information with different sets of friends.</b> For example, your best friends may get to see your party photos, and your family may get to see your wedding photos. This is a custom privacy setting you can use all over Facebook.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>See a version of News Feed that shows only updates from people in that list. </b>You can make sure that you can easily zero in on updates from a certain group of people, which may be your family, or friends from college, or both. You can choose to view only News Feeds from those people.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Use Friend Lists in Chat.</b> You can show yourself as online or offline to different groups of people, or easily scan for certain types of friends currently online, such as social friends if you're looking for a dinner date or carpool friends if you need a ride.</p> </li></ul><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The options for how you create Friend Lists are virtually limitless. Your lists can be for silly things (Girls' Night Out Girls), real-world needs (Family), or general bucketing (co-workers).</p>

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How to Search for a Specific Person on Facebook

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Facebook's Friend Finder is a great way to build your Friend List quickly without a lot of work. After you build it a bit, though, what if you find other people who may want to be your friends? Facebook Search offers you the capability to seek out certain friends by name.</p> <p class="Warning" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The Search box in the blue bar on top lets you search a lot of things on Facebook: pages, groups, events, even things your friends have liked. Most often, you use it to search for people. It may be people you're already friends with and you just want to go to their Timelines. Sometimes it will be people you aren't friends with yet but whom you want to find.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Basic Search can be a little confusing because Facebook autocompletes the names that you type and assumes you're trying to get to your friends' Timelines. If you're the type of person who is used to pressing the Enter key to begin a search, this can lead you landing on friends' Timelines when you meant to search for someone<i>else</i> named James.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">You'll wind up using Search two basic ways. The first way is if the name of the person you're looking for (or at least someone with the same name) appears in the autocomplete menu. You can accomplish that sort of search following these steps:</p> <ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Begin typing the name you're looking for in the Search box.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Pay attention to the people who appear in the autocomplete menu. Facebook displays first your friends and then friends of friends. There's a good chance that you may find the person you're looking for in this menu.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">If you see the name in the autocomplete menu, use your mouse or arrow keys to highlight the person you're looking for.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the name or press Enter.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This brings you to the person's Timeline, where you can verify that you know the person and add him as a friend.</p></li></ol><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> If you don't see the person you're looking for, don't despair; you can get more results:</p><ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Type the person's full name in the search box.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click See More at the bottom of the search menu.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">The search menu expands to reveal new options for search. So, if you type Jane Smith and then click See More, you can now either search People Named Jane Smith, Pages Named Jane Smith, or Places Named Jane Smith.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the People Named <b><i><Friend's Name></i></b> option.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A blue friend icon is next to this option. A search results page appears with larger previews of people's profile pictures and Timeline info. The right side of the page also has options for narrowing your search using fields such as Gender, Employer, Current City, and so on.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Use the fields on the right side of the page to zero in on your actual friend.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This might be information like where your friend works or where she's from.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">When you find the person you're looking for, add her as a friend.</p> </li></ol>

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