What Changes Did Facebook Make? NEXT TOPIC

This area is pretty straight forward. Start typing your friends’ name that you are looking for and matches for those friends will instantly start showing up in the friends area. While you can still use Facebook’s existing search box for finding friends, this is a great interface for rapidly searching through all of your connections. Facebook uses an AJAX interface so that as soon as you begin typing, your friends immediately begin getting filtered.

Facebook has provided you with the ability to sort through your friends based on the networks they belong to. It could be the school they attend (high school or college), the company they work for, or simply a geographic network that they belong to. This feature is also extremely useful for determining what networks you have the highest density of friends within.

While entering a network is optional on Facebook, it’s extremely useful for sorting and searching through existing relationships or searching for new people.

This is a basic way for sorting your friends. If you simply want to browse through your friends in alphabetical order, click on the “All Friends” tab and you’ll be able to sort everybody in order of their name. This isn’t really much of a filtering mechanism and is instead a way to just spend some time browsing your friends.

Once you’ve reached a certain number of friends, browsing by name may no longer be the most efficient method for finding specific individuals in your network.

The phone book view for your Facebook friends page has to be one of the most useful features on Facebook. If you want a great way for keeping up to date with all of your friends’ phone numbers, Facebook is probably the best place to do this. The phonebook view simply provides an alphabetical list of your friends with each of their phone numbers listed out.

If you are looking for a way to get your friends’ phone numbers while on the go, I highly recommend downloading one of Facebook’s mobile applications. I personally use the Facebook for Blackberry application and the Facebook iPhone application but there are many other applications for other mobile operating systems.

To view your most recent Facebook friend additions, you can simply click on the “Recently Added” tab. This is a great way for viewing new connection trends within your personal network as well as verifying that you’ve accurately grouped each new connection into the proper friend list. Aside from personal trends and keeping up on friend list management, I’m not sure what else you would use this tab for aside for just having another way for browsing through all of your contacts.

This is the final and most important view of the Facebook friends area. There are two types of friend list filters: network filters and custom friend lists. Network filters are the default filters that will show up. They are any of the networks that you currently belong to. For instance, I currently live in Washington, D.C. and belong to the D.C. network. I can easily filter through all my friends that belong to that network.

Custom friend lists are the other tool that you can sort by via this view. Since this guide is focused on how to leverage friend lists, I’ll save the details on this for the next section.

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