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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.