Well, how are you surviving the new enhancements to Facebook, my friends? The new changes are just about complete and beginning on October 1st, all of us with personal profiles at Facebook will now have the new “Timeline”.
As many of my Facebook friends just stopped reeling from the new changes to our News Feeds and the addition of the “Ticker”, I cannot imagine what will be posted next week as status updates! My suggestion – just take a deep breathe and accept it! These are the new changes that Mark Zuckerberg and the Facebook team has been working towards for almost a year now! They are here to stay! From what I have seen on my team’s profiles, it looks fantastic!!
As the News Feeds have changed, many folks have begun to embrace Facebook Lists. A tool many social media folks have been using for quite a while now. Personally it was at Twitter that I first learned how to use “Lists” to limit what person’s content I followed. At Facebook, they are even more prominent now.
See "Lists" on Left Side of my Home Feed - Click on this Image to view Larger
“Lists” appear at your News Feed or Home on the left side (see photo – mine show “Family” and “VC”). Most of us have at least Close Friends or Family now. Acquaintances will be automatically added for everyone to use as of October 1st! On the left side if you hover over where the lists appear, a “More” will appear which when clicked on, opens a window to add, edit or create new lists.
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In this window you can create many lists. I have ones for “Clients”, for my sister VAs (virtual assistants), for “Facebook Info” and even “Just for Fun”. The lists allow you to see the folks you place in the lists data that they post only. It limits your News Feed to those people or pages you add to that list. In addition, the “Close Friends” List sends you notifications when that person posts anything!
You can even create a list with just one person; for instance I have one for my daughter as at 13 years, I want to keep a close eye on what she is doing at Facebook.
There is a way to create a List that is titled “Most Recent” and have it feed all of those posts also. Try working with it; playing with it and if you have any questions, please let me know how I can help!
Stay cool in this beautiful Fall weather!
