OK, I just became aware of this tonight….there are people who don’t know how to separate their Facebook friends into groups. Nothing wrong with that whatsoever–I’d just go insane if I had to view all my Facebook friends at one time! If you’re familiar with Twitter it’s kind of like twitter lists. It makes it possible to see one group of friends at a time instead of a whole oodle of them! I did it before Facebook started changing over…but it is possible to do it on the new Facebook too! I’m going to teach you how to do it! I could never survive with having to look at almost 300 people in my feed at one time. I’d go insane! This tutorial is for the new version of Facebook. If yours hasn’t changed over yet please see an excellent tutorial here.
Here are the steps; pictures are included, click if you need to make them bigger::
1) Log into Facebook. (I hope this is a given!)
2) Click “Account” in the upper right hand of your screen.
4) Look on the left side of your screen. Somewhere you should find a hyperlink with a plus sign next to it that says “Create”. Click that. Create whatever groups you like. You can see mine here.
***Edited to add–in order to view your new lists once you are done look to the left and click “Friends”. Once you’ve done that you should see your groups! Also–I actually put in the link above that was missing! 
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Thank you, I don't even know how to use the lists on Twitter.
Thats awesome! I really had no idea I could do that. Im headed over to FB right now!
Hey, I see myself twice in your little tutorial picture up there!!
Great job on the makeover. I wanna know how you do 2 normal posts, and then snippets like that near the bottom. I’ve seen that before & love it! And the tabs on the side. And the tabs on top. Oh, I think I would have an anurysm trying to figure all of that out. lol
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I am so going to give this a try. Thanks for sharing.
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That is awesome, I never knew you could do that! Thanks for sharing the info.
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do they know what group they have been put into or not?
Twitter: mamabytes
December 30, 2010
No, they do not (to my knowledge). This is one of those “for your eyes only” kind of things!
I recently put my FB friends into different groups and wished that I’ve done it a loooong time ago!
Wow! Thanks! I did not know you could do that. I need to do this for my Facebook page.
I created different groups in FB, but now nothing is different. I can’t even find the groups unless I go back to “account.” I was hoping that I could just choose which group I want to look at on my news feed….is that what is supposed to happen? So they aren’t all mished together? What did I do wrong?
Twitter: mamabytes
July 18, 2011
You can-you just have to look to the left to see your groups and then click on the group you want to see. Only that group will be shown then.