What are friend lists, and how do I create them? Friend lists are a way to organize your friends on Facebook and create custom privacy settings. You can also use them to filter the stories you see in News Feed.
To create and edit friend lists, follow these steps:
Go to the Friends page. Click the Account drop-down at the top of any page, and then click on "Edit Friends."
Click "Create a List" at the top of the page to create a new list. You can also select an existing list on the left side of the page and enter friends' names to add them.
If you have more than two friend lists, you can also add or remove friends from lists using the menu that appears next to each name on the Friends page.
You can use Friend lists to create different privacy levels for different groups of your friends. This allows you to selectively open more of your profile to the people closest to you.
When you edit your Privacy Settings, clicking "Customize" for any setting will open a Custom Privacy pop up dialogue. Under "Make this open to," select "Specific People" form the drop-down menu and enter the name of the Friend List with whom you’d like to share the content.
If you add a user to more than one friend list, and those friend lists have conflicting privacy settings, the more restrictive of the privacy settings will always be respected.
If you enter three or more friends as an exception, you’ll have the option to create a new friend list to group these people. You can create, edit and delete friend lists from your Edit Friends page.