Business Tools Blog

With the sudden surge in new facebook friends at Zayo, I will be publishing a series of blogs that offer a few tips on how to better use Facebook.  Rule #1 - do not tag my high school pictures with my name.  HORROR! Yes, I went to school in the 80’s. Neon colors, feathered hair, acid washed jeans, fringe, spandex, white ankle boots and spike heals were the rage.  For example, this look would have been standard attire for my graduating class:

But I digress, lesson one to save you and your Facebook friends any anxiety … make sure to Use Your Friend Lists.

Friend lists allow you to create private groupings of friends based on your personal preferences. For example, you can create a Friend List for your high school friends, your business associates, your current co-workers, your charity groups, etc. This allows you to easily view friends by type and send messages to your lists.

• You can add each friend to more than one friend group
• Friend Lists can have specific privacy policies applied to them

Just click on the friends tab on Facebook:

Then click +Create:

Once you’ve created your groups, you can edit your privacy settings. Look in the upper right corner of Facebook, hover over Settings, then click Privacy Settings.

When you click on your profile:

This menu appears:

Some of the menus have a Customize option:

For example, if you really want to post crazy things on your wall, you can restrict who can view your wall … and exclude your mother and your co-worker’s friends list.  Those listed in “except” will NOT be able to see Wall Posts in this example.