How To Edit Facebook's New Friend Lists

Now that smart friend lists have wended their way onto profiles and imposed some organization over the past month (like it or not), it's time to talk about how to edit them.

When Facebook implemented smart friend lists, their editing controls moved — to the left-hand column of the homepage, along with the top right of your friends’ profiles.

Techie types would call that location “inline,” referring to the fact that the settings no longer reside in a single area.

In this case it used to be only in the privacy section reached by clicking in the upper right-hand corner of any screen.

Moving the settings from the privacy section to the left of the “subscribe” and “message” buttons on friends’ profiles didn’t even factor into the formal announcement of smart lists, because 95 percent of Facebook users hadn’t even used a single

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