How to Create a Friend Lists on Facebook

Your Facebook Friend Lists are subsets of your giant Friend List. You can create your Friend Lists as you see fit. Then you can use your friends lists for things like messaging and even organize your inner-friend hierarchy.

The options for Friend Lists are virtually limitless. You can have 1,500 friends on each list, people can be on more than one list, and you can make up to 100 Friend Lists. Your lists can be for silly things (Girls Night Out Girls), real-world needs (Family), or general bucketing (co-workers).

Whether it’s Tuesday Ultimate Players or Random Acquaintances, use Friend Lists for all sorts of conveniences. To create a Friend List, follow these steps:

Start your Friends list.

Click Friends drop-down menu in the big blue bar on top.

Click the Make a New List button.

It’s on the left side of the screen.

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In the new space that opens for the list, name your list.

Maybe something like Softball for your softball team.

Start typing the name a friend you want on this list.

While you type, your friends’ names auto-complete.

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Select the name you want and then press Enter.

If you’re planning on adding a lot of friends at once, click the link to Select Multiple Friends. This opens the multi-friend selector, where you can select a lot of friends with a few clicks.

After you select the friends you want, your list saves automatically. You can add and remove friends from a list at any point in time.

Generally, after you create a Friend List, you can enter the name of a Friend List almost anywhere you enter a friend’s name. The most prominent place you use this is for messaging groups of people.

When you want to message a Friend List, open a composer window as you normally would, and start typing the name of the list you want to message in the To: field. The Friend List name is among the names of your actual friends, so you can actually message a list in addition to a single person.

Friend Lists are private, so even if the group you’re messaging is known in your mind as Annoying Co-workers, all that your annoying co-workers see is a list of their names.