Just as you can create your “best friends” list on Instagram , Facebook also offers you this option to create a best friends list.
However, Facebook offers more options, allowing you to create all kinds of lists—not just your best friends—and customize them however you like. Plus, while on Instagram this list is only used to share content with people on your best friends list, on Facebook you can also see updates from people on that list in your own feed.
However, Facebook friend lists aren’t as popular as those on Instagram, but in this article, you’ll learn how to easily create and manage them.
Types of friends lists on Facebook
Facebook lets you create lists to organize your friends, and you can create them however you want. You can create one for your coworkers, another for your gym buddies, and another for your family, for example.
To start, Facebook has several predefined lists that you can add only certain people to: the “best friends” list, the “acquaintances” list, and the restricted access list.
– Best Friends: In this list, you can add friends with whom you want to share photos, videos, or all kinds of posts exclusively. It works like Instagram’s Best Friends list.
By default, your friends won’t know about this “best friends” list. Only those you choose to include on it will know of its existence and that they’ve been added. Reactions or comments your best friends make to content posted exclusively for them will be visible to the rest of the people on the list.
– Acquaintances: In this list, add people with whom you might want to share less content. When you’re ready to post something, you can select the “Friends, except acquaintances” option in the audience selector so they don’t see a particular post.
-Restricted access: This is the list of people you’ve added as friends but with whom you don’t want to share most of your posts, such as your boss. These people can only see your public content or posts you’ve tagged them in.
You can also create custom lists to organize your friends however you like. You decide who to include in each of these custom lists and what type of content they can see.
How to manage and administer your friends lists on Facebook
To create your own custom friend lists, or to add people to your “best friends,” “acquaintances,” or “restricted access” lists, you need to do the following:
-Go to your posts feed and, in the options menu on the right side of the screen, tap “See more.”
-Now click on “Friends”
-In the options that appear, go to “Custom Lists.”
-There you’ll see the three default lists. Tap each one to add friends to that list (or remove people you no longer want from it).
-You can also click the “create list” option to create a new custom list, for whatever reason you want, and configure the content that people who belong to it will have access to.
