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So everyone is raving about Google plus at the minute and indeed its awesome and I think it is set to eventually take over from the book of Faces. However one thing that strikes me about a lot of reviews Google+ gets is that the circles system is new an innovative and with Facebook you either share everything to everyone and risk ye grandmother seeing a facebook update about how you totally went out an got smashed when you were meant to be fixing her shed or something.

This is not the case, you can easily create  using lists (although not as easily as google+) groups of people you can include and exclude stuff from.

I will now guide you though this process so you can show and hide stuff to different groups of people and manipulate the world <insert evil laughter>

Creating a list

Top right of the screen select account and then click edit friends.

Then click the ‘Create a list’ button at the top which will bring up a popup window. You can then enter in a title for the list and the people you would like to add to it, this is very similar if you have ever created an event on Facebook. This list will act as grouping of people you can show and hide stuff too.

For example above I have created one called wargaming and added 5 people to it. So in the future if I have something wargaming related i’m gonna post I can make sure only these guys see it or visa versa you could create a list with the aim to hide stuff from one or more people like ‘douche bags i keep around’ or ‘the ones i’m trying to impress so will hide stupid shit from’ etc etc.

Hit save and you should be presented with your list:

Hiding and showing stuff

So now whenever you do a status update or anything else all you need to do is click on the little padlock and a popup window will appear like the one below. From here you can just type in your list in the visible or hide boxes and whatever you post will be hidden or only shown to those lists. You can also do this for specific people too.

So here is a status update and hovering over the padlock you can see its only visible to my wargaming list.

Becareful with lists, its a pretty quick way to alienate people if you never share anything with them so probably best to use in extreme cases, I don’t actually have any lists set up my self, or do i?! do you know the real me? hah luckily i’m not that interesting.

I’m back on the blog! with a new theme! for some reason we cannot figure out the last one died, i think it had something to do with it being apple styled and therefore it reached its shelf life! anyway i digress.

Today on facebook one of my chums on there wanted to know how to link his blog posts into facebook automatically. This is something i’v been wanting to do for a while and after a bit of searching the interwebs i found out how.

There are a lot of tutorials out there on how do do this but most of them focus on the old style layout of facebook not the new one. So without further adieu heres how you do it.

Find your feed

Every blogging site/software worth their salt has a mechanism to feed out posts in a format online readers can use to access the latest blog posts as they are published. The first thing you need to do is find out the link for yours, here are where Blogger and WordPress feeds are located:

Blogger:
http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

WordPress:
http://blogname.wordpress.com/feed/  (or just http://your-blog-url/feed/ if you have WordPress on a webserver)

Once you have this link highlight and copy it.

Add your blog to facebook

Now you have your feed link all you need to do is login to facebook and in the top left hand corner of the screen go to settings -> Applications.

This will load a list of applications, one of which is called notes, click on the word notes.

This will load another screen with a link on the left that says Edit import settings, click on that.

This will load a further page with a text box, copy your blog feed code into that box and tick the agreement button that it wont be feeding horse porn and terrorist bomb making tips and after a bit of a wait it will now be setup!

Now whenever you add in a new blog item it will automatically show up in facebook. Think of all that time you’ll save pasting it in your status update as a link, at least 15 minutes a year