How to Edit and Delete a List on Facebook
Last week I wrote about a way to filter the Facebook news stream by pagesby creating lists. It isn’t an elegant solution, but since Facebook made their last round of changes their isn’t another way to do this. It’s a shame because it used to work great. I think that Facebook needs to learn that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. And if it is broke, please listen to your users and at least attempt to fix it.
Anyway, in the comments, Ajith asked how to delete the lists that had already been created. This, too, had been moved in Facebook’s last update and the settings were not obvious.
Here’s how to edit and delete a Facebook list.
- Click on Account on the top right of the Facebook top navigation bar.
- Select Edit Friends
- On the next page you can add a fan page or a friend to an existing lists and create a new list
- On the left are the lists that you have already created.
- Click on the name of the list that you want to edit or delete.
- At the top of the page you will now have two new buttons: Edit List and Delete List.
So, that’s how you find the new location to edit and delete lists that you have already created. You can create a new list from here as well.
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March 17, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Seriously, if not a whole ‘nother blog, then at least a page with just links to facebook resources. ;)
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March 17, 2010 at 8:05 pm
Hi Dennis – I even have 2 domain names … ;-)
March 19, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Email comin’ soon, if not tonight then tomorrow. ;)
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March 18, 2010 at 10:28 am
Honestly I can’t think of a way to live without lists. :-) Twitter lists, Facebook lists.. all of these have helped me a great deal to organize. I wouldn’t be surprised if one day a contact-managing-application will appear for all our social networks, something that saves time and effort after clearing the clutter. Yup, that’s another request to my ultimate social media wishlist.
Always can learn something from your blog. Bookmarked and link-loved. ^^
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March 18, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Hi – I wish Twitter lists had started sooner. I’ve worked on them some but I’m having a hard time finding the time to work on them – they are very
incomplete.
I like the Facebook lists but find I don’t use them that much – I tend to wade through everything when I have the time. Everyone is way too interesting :-)
May 3, 2010 at 2:58 pm
So… you don’t employ Facebook or Twitter lists?
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May 3, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Hi Ari – No, not really. I’ve made lists on Facebook but rarely use them. And I started making twitter lists but I still don’t access information through them.
March 18, 2010 at 11:11 am
This has been driving me crazy for… maybe forever! I created too many lists and deleting them was not exactly clear – or maybe something sparkly caught my eye. Anyway, once again, it’s Kim to the rescue – thank you!
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March 18, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Hi Christine – Awesome!
Ooh … something shiny ;-)
April 1, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Thanks so much!
April 2, 2010 at 8:06 am
Hi Joel – You’re welcome.
October 1, 2011 at 1:25 pm
I don’t have the options “Create, Edit, or Delete” available
I did have “Merge” but that has now disappeared. I accidentally duplicated part of a list under a different name, then tried to merge. That seems to be successful, but now I can no longer Merge either & I can’t find any way to delete…. all I can do now is Add!! Help
October 6, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Lists on Facebook have changed since I wrote this article and were updated even more during the last round of changes. This Facebook help article should help
http://www.facebook.com/help?page=768