How to Make Friends Lists on Facebook

Written by Jack Lloyd

Last Updated: October 13, 2021

This wikiHow teaches you how to add friends to custom or built-in lists on Facebook, which you can then use to limit who sees your Facebook content. You will need to use the Facebook website on a computer to do this.

Part 1

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Creating a List

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Open Facebook. Go to https://www.facebook.com/ in your preferred web browser. This will open your Facebook News Feed if you're logged in.
- If you aren't logged in, enter your email address (or phone number) and password in the top-right side of the page.
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Click Friend Lists. It's an option in the column on the left-hand side of the Facebook News Feed.^{[1]
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- You may have to click See More here in order to show this option.
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Click + Create List. This button is at the top of the Friend Lists page.
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Enter a list name. Click the "List Name" box and type in your preferred name for the list.^{[2]
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Click Create. This will create your friend list and open it.
- You can add friends to this list by clicking the "Members" text box, typing in a name, and clicking the related friend in the drop-down menu that appears.

Part 2

Part 2 of 2:

Managing Your Friend List

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Click Add Friends to List. This blue button will be in the middle of the Friend List page.
- If you want to add friends to a different list, click Friend Lists again, then click the list you want to edit.^{[3]
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Select friends to add. Click each person you want to add to this list; you'll see a checkmark appear in the bottom-right corner of the person's profile picture, signifying that they're selected.^{[4]
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- You may have to scroll down to select some friends.
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Click Finish. It's a blue button in the bottom-right corner of the window. Doing so will add your selected friends to your list.
- The friends won't appear on the list's page.
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Click Manage List ▼. It's in the upper-right corner of the page. A drop-down menu will appear.
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Click Edit List. It's in the middle of the drop-down menu.
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De-select friends you want to remove. Click each person whom you want to remove from the list; the checkmark in each person's profile picture will disappear as you do so.^{[5]
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Click Finish. It's in the bottom-right corner of the window. This will remove your selected friends from the list.

Warnings

When you select a friends list to use on a post, it will become the default for subsequent posts until you change it back.

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