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How To Create Facebook Subscription Lists
Facebook introduced subscriptions last month, and the social network followed suit with a way for users to create lists of users they are subscribed to (Sound like Twitter?).
The lists appear in the left-hand column of the homepage, as a subsection of favorites. Whenever you click on a list here, you can see news feed updates from just the people on that list.
Here’s how to create a custom list, based on advice and screenshots we’ve garnered from the Facebook + Journalists page and our own surfing of the site.
Click on “Lists” in the left-hand on the homepage. That takes you to a page showing lists you already have. Even if you think you don’t have any, you do: Facebook’s smart friend lists appear here.
At the top right-hand side of this page, click on the “Create a List” button. A small pop-up window appears prompting you to type in a name for your new list.
If you’re creating a list of people you subscribe to but aren’t friends with, you could call it “subscriptions.” You might want to create multiple lists to separate different types of people you’re subscribed to, such as journalists, technology executives and so on.
After you’ve typed in the name, click on the button labeled “Create List.”
After you have created the list, it will be blank with no one in it. Now’s the time to add contacts, whether they’re friends, people you subscribe to or both. Click on the “Manage List” button in the top right corner of the screen.
Select “Add/Remove Friends,” which calls up both friends and people you subscribe to but aren’t actually friends with.
To put people you’re subscribed to on a list, click the top left drop-down menu and select “Subscriptions.” This will show you people you’re subscribing to.
Click on each individual person to add them to the list. You can also add pages to the list by selecting “Pages” in the drop-down menu. This will enable you to add pages you have “liked” to the list.
When you’re done, select “Done” in the bottom right. You can always come back to the list and add/remove people and pages from it.
To view a stream of updates from a particular list, go to the home page and click on the name of the list in the left-hand column. Then you’ll see a version of the news feed containing updates only from the people on then list. You also have somewhat of an alternative to groups here: Anything you post while on this screen only goes out to the people on the list, assuming they’re subscribed to you.
To make a list appear higher up on the left-hand column of the homepage, click on the pencil icon to the left-hand side of the list name and select “Add to Favorites.”
Readers, how much of the content that shows up in your news feed comes from people you subscribe to who aren’t on your friend list?
Screenshots courtesy of the Facebook + Journalists page.
Facebook Quietly Tones Down The Ticker
Have you noticed your ticker changing?
Facebook appears to be testing slight modifications of the homepage ticker.
The ticker now defaults to half of the original size, at most.
There’s no longer an option to maximize or minimize the ticker’s size by dragging a thin grey line over the feature.
Sometimes the feature appears in the top half of the right-hand column, other times in the bottom portion or the middle.
Roughly half of the time, the label “Ticker” appears across the top of the feature.
Wherever the ticker appears initially, it doesn’t remain fixed on the screen when I scroll down; it didn’t before, but since Facebook has recently tested fixed navigation bars on the site, it’s worth noting whether certain features stay in place or move.
The ticker appears differently on my own homepage than what a friend’s screen looked like. Said party wouldn’t let me share the screenshot, so readers, please feel free to forward images to us for comparison.
Facebook is probably testing the modifications to see whether any of them placate users, but this comes well after complaints about the ticker have quieted down.
Readers, what does the ticker look like on your screen right now?
How to hide an office romance
Here is a set of guidelines on how to conceal your passionate office romp...
Don't change your routine
The best way to conceal an office romance and cast a protective shell around your new relationship is to maintain your schedule throughout the work day. Nothing should change. People always notice significant changes in routine, especially if they're the gossipy office types, so avoid doing anything out of the ordinary. This means no lunches with your new partner; especially if you've never been known to socialize with this person on a friendly basis before.
Keep it to yourself
You may have a few close friends at work with whom you really want to share the events of your recent hookup, but you can't give in to this urge. This is a very crucial rule to follow when you want to conceal an office romance. Don't brag to them in your office and send them away with a vow never to tell anyone. It's acceptable to tell friends or family who don't work in the office, but you better make damn sure they have no possible connection to your workplace.
Don't document it
There are a number of ways to conceal an office romance while communicating with your love during the workday. You might think you can get away with sending 100 e-mails back and forth every day, but do not use your business address. Most companies have internal servers that can track any and all e-mails sent between employees, and if anybody over in IT happened to look, they would find more than enough evidence to convict.
Restrict yourself to cell phone texts and voice mail; anything that has a chance of being seen by a co-worker isn't worth the risk.
Avoid attending office social gatherings together
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