Chapter 7. Organizing Groups of Friends

After you’ve been on Facebook for any length of time, you find that you’ve added quite a few people to your friends list. Between old friends from your youth, current friends and coworkers, and assorted family members, you might end up with anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred Facebook friends. Good for you!

The problem with having so many friends on Facebook, however, is managing them. That’s a lot of people to track in your News Feed, for example. It’s also difficult to find that one individual friend you want to email or send a photo to; when you have an ever expanding friends list, locating one single friend is a little like finding a needle in a haystack.

How, then, do you better manage your ...

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