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!
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Good info. I think I will make a few lists myself.
Thanks. Good post! I'm new to Active Rain. What is the benefit of upgrading your account?
Hi Mike! It's been great for me, I love being able to quickly switch back and forth from the updates I want to see in the moment.
Hi Donna! My mother just recently upgraded her account after seeing how much I've loved my Active Rain account. The biggest benefits are the Google Juice and outside blog posts you can have that others can find you in the search engines from. Right now, you have a member's only account so only members (who are mostly other real estate professionals) can see your posts, but if you upgrade, non-members can read and find your blog. You can use it as a platform to keep the public informed on your business, not just members of Active Rain. My posts have been coming up in the search engines for a long time now and I get a lot of leads that way.
Welcome to Active Rain! Hope you enjoy this great group of helpful people!
Sincerely,
Kathleen
Thanks for sharing - my facebook page is growing fast - I know this will help!
Kathleen, I've read and re-read your directions. Not working for me. Maybe I have a computer problem. This all sounds really good, and I do like to have my lists organized--such a timesaver. My trouble seems to be that I create a new list, start typing a name and it all disappears. But then maybe after midnight is not the best time to try to master something, other than sleep.
Hi Norma! You're very welcome!
Sherry - Let me log-in to my account and see if it is working. I know that sometimes Facebook gets "buggy" and doesn't do things correctly like post comments and send messages and the chat goes in and out of working. I am going to try and make a new list for Active Rain members and see if it will work.
It just worked and everything went fine. I mistyped someones name so it came up with no friends in the list, but when I went back and typed ROL instead of RONA it came up with my friend Roland's profile. When I hit create list, my list was created and showed up on the bottom of the list to the left. I can move it to whatever spot I'd like in the list at this point. Are you sure that you were typing out the name correctly? Did you try just browsing through friends and clicking on their pictures if the typing the names out didn't work? Let me know and I'll be happy to help any way that I can.
Have a great Sunday everyone!
Sincerely,
Kathleen
That was great! I didn't realize I could organize the list sequence! Thanks for the tips.
Thanks Georgina! It really helped me out a lot on my Facebook. I wanted it to be full of contacts but not full of people's status updates about their Mafia Wars game or FarmTown leveling...LOL
Have a great week!
Sincerely,
Kathleen
Kathleen - no kidding! Who's got time for FarmTown and Mafia Wars!? Thanks for being a fan!