Facebook – How to Create a List of Friends Based on Location

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There are lots of times I only want to post updates to certain groups (especially to folks that are in my local city).

Is there a way to create an automatic list based on where those people are? (Or manually create a filtered list based on location?)

Best Answer

If you go to the Lists page you should see a list with an icon like this:

Area list designator

This is an automatically created list by Facebook based on your address that you provide in your Contact Information that you can edit here https://www.facebook.com/<yourUsernameOrID>/info

You can get your ID by going to http://graph.facebook.com/<yourCustomUsername> or snagging it from the url of your profile page (if you haven't gotten a custom username yet).

If you want to constantly see that list you can mark it as a favorite by clicking on the pencil icon and it will appear in your left navigation area.

Once you have that and you want to set a status update for only that list you can do one of the following:

  1. Click on the list in the left nav and then click Update Status. Since you're already looking at the list, Facebook assumes you only want to post an update to that list. Be careful, as this selection will now be your default selection for status updates until you change it back.
  2. you can also go to Facebook Home, click Update Status, and then select the area list from the dropdown to the immediate left of the post button:

Choose Area list from status update visibility button

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