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Music is one of the most powerful and fun ways to connect. Whether it's at a concert with a bunch of people or on a long car ride with your best buddy, we love listening to music with our friends. But what if you could listen to music with your friends when you're alone, like at work, at home or on the go?

Today, with music services on Facebook, there's a new way to listen with friends. This feature lets you listen along with any of your friends who are currently listening to music. You can also listen together in a group while one of your... friends plays DJ.  

We launched a new Friends Page today to make it easier for you to find and organize your connections so you can better filter the content you see from them on your home page and manage your privacy settings. If you don't see the new page just yet, don't worry. We've started to roll it out today, and it will be available to everyone soon.

When you visit the Friends Page, you will first see tools that make it simple for you to find and connect with all the people you care about. The easiest way to find friends on Facebook is searching your email... address book. Just enter your information, and you'll be able to find all the people you connect with via email on Facebook, too. Check out suggestions of people or celebrities and organizations you may want to connect with or find friends by searching their name, email address or instant messenger accounts.

Grouping People

Now that you've found people you want to connect with, you can also create, view and organize those connections into Friend Lists right from the Friends Page. Friend Lists let you create named lists of friends to group relationships and more easily share with certain sets of people. We launched Friends Lists at the end of 2007 and have continued to improve them. We expect these lists to become increasingly useful throughout the site as it grows and evolves.



When you look at your new Friends Page, you may find a few lists already created for you. These are automatically recommended lists based on details you entered when you added a new friend and answered the question "How do you know this person?" You can modify or delete those lists if you choose.

Keep in mind, your friends won't be able to see any of the lists you've created.

Filtering Content

Once you've created your Friend Lists, you can use them all over the site — for example, to send Inbox messages, group or event invitations, or to set privacy on the content you publish. Now with the new home page, you can even filter the stream of stories on your home page by Friends Lists. That way, you can see what is going on with certain groups of people.



For a more detailed look at your new Friends Page, check out this video on how to get started.




Alexandre, a designer at Facebook, is keeping his friends close and his enemies on separate friend lists.


Tip: On the home page, you'll see all of your Friend Lists on the left hand side of the page. You can arrange the lists in any order. The first Friend List will become the default view for your News Feed — automatically filtering your stream to show all the updates from the people in that list each time you visit the site.

When we introduced the new Friends Page last week, our goal was to help you find and organize all of your connections. Since then, we heard from many of you that you want to be able to filter your friends by those who've recently updated their profiles and to quickly view a stream of their status updates. As a result, we've added both of those options.

From your Friends Page, you can choose the "recently updated" filter on the left side. This will show you which of your friends have posted new profile pictures; updated the Info tab sections... such as Basic Info, Contact Info, Personal Info, and Education and Work; or recently connected with Facebook Pages.

From your home page, the filters on the left side now also include "status updates." By selecting that filter, you will only see the text updates from your friends in your stream. If you don't see the "status updates" filter right away, click the "More" link beneath your list of filters. You can drag the filter to the top of the list to set your friends' status updates as the default view of your home page stream.

We've added the filter for status updates to your home page, rather than the Friends Page, because the two play different roles on the site. The home page focuses on showing you what you're friends are sharing, while giving you options for filtering that content. The Friends Page is the place for organizing and finding friends.

Keep your feedback coming as we introduce features and changes in the future.


Alexandre, a designer at Facebook, is checking out his friends' latest updates.