If you are using Facebook to social network and connect with old friends and family, you are probably starting to fill up your friend's list fast. With each person you choose to be friends with on Facebook comes more and more status updates, posts, links and invites on your wall and page. Like me, you've probably got your inner circle of people you'd like to follow and keep tabs on and then you've got those people that have found you that you don't know that well, but felt bad rejecting their friend requests so you've accepted them and now you don't really want to see their status updates every couple of hours about what they are having for dinner and what movie they just watched, but it's taking over your page! Have you ever thought "there's just got to be a better way"? Well there is!
When I started growing my friends list to over 500 people, I had to find a way to make it well organized so that I could always see updates from those people that I was interested in hearing from at the time. I did a fast Google search and quickly found out that I could create lists for different sets of people. I've setup my page into several lists. My first list is my "Keeping In Touch" group. This group has been moved to the top of the list because those are the status updates I want to read when I log-in. Some other lists I have are "Friends", "Family", "Realtors" and "Contacts". You may not want to read your fellow Realtors updates daily or every hour, so you can place that list underneath your "Keeping In Touch" list and just click on it each time you feel like browsing through the updates from your fellow Realtors. When you click on a specific list you have created, only those that you put into that list will show up. This is also a good feature if you want to set different portions of your page to private or hide personal photos from professional contacts.
To start creating your lists, log-in to your Facebook page, look to the left column where you see that list with your News Feed, Pages, Links, etc... and click on More. Towards the bottom of that list you will see an option that says Create New List, click on it, type in a name for that list and then start typing out the names of your friends you'd like to add to that list or click on their photos. Once you've selected them all, click Create List and Voila! You've just created your first Facebook list. To make your "Keeping In Touch" list the first list you see when you log-in, simply click your Facebook Home button, then click More on that list to the left and hover over the line with the list's name towards the right of it until you see a cursor with 4 arrows indicating which way you'd like to move that list. Click and hold while you drag the list to the top, drop it there and click your Facebook Home one last time for it all to appear correctly.
Feel free to ask questions if you need help setting this up on your own Facebook page. We'd also love to connect with you on our Facebook Fan Page - www.Facebook.com/JCKCRealty!
We're making a page to share ideas, network, and share referrals. We've got a discussion board started with a few different topics, please join the fun! If you don't have a Facebook account, now is a great time to join. It's FREE and easy to do, only takes a few minutes. I've kept in touch with so many friends, family members and clients using Facebook and I use it to meet new people in my area and build awareness about our company. See what Facebook can do for your business and social life. You'll be surprised who will find you, it's like a high school reunion on the web!