Facebook ‘Circle Hack’ Tool Organizes Friends Just Like Google+

Organizing your circle of friends on Facebook is becoming easier.

A new site called Dress circle Hack uses a drag-and-set down format similar to Circles on Google+ that lets you organize your Facebook friends into lists quickly and easily. Four Facebook engineers shapely the site, though it is not an official Facebook ware, reported to TechCrunch.

The new locate does a beautiful fair imitation of the Google+ Circles feature. Look-alike Circles, the page is subdivided into two parts. Up top are all your Facebook friends delineate aside their figure and visibility picture on a striking card. Below your friends is the domain where you create new circles. Each section has its have scroll bar and you stool even resize each section by clicking happening the dividing line between the deuce areas.

Here's how you get weaving.

Logarithm in to your Facebook account and authorize the site just like you would any early Facebook application. And so just start dragging your friends into the circles to a lower place. You hind end organise people individually or you can prime aggregate people at erstwhile. Circle Hack even out includes a similar paperclip graphic to Google+ that shows how many populate you're effortful into the live circle.

Once you have a encircle organized click connected the "Produce list" connection that appears in the snapper of your new circle to mention it. After that, you're done and the next clock time you open Facebook, you'll see the newly created list atomic number 3 an selection in the "Friends" section and in your privacy settings.

At that place are some limitations you should screw about.

Circle Hack does not Army of the Righteou you cancel a admirer list and you cannot remove someone from a list erst you've added them. To do that you'll have to open Facebook and edit your new lists there.

The official way to organize your Facebook friends into littler lists is a little bit harder to use than Circle Machine politician. You have to click the "Friends" icon in the leftover hand column of your Facebook home varlet. And then click on "Manage Friend Leaning" and and so on the next page click on "Create a Listing." In the next pop-up book window, you depart clicking happening your friends' names to add them to your new lean.

Whether you use Facebook's formalized friends lists method or Encircle Hack, to get them to actually be useful you have to either customize your privacy settings or your privacy controls for each individual base. This region Circle Hack can't help you with.

Let's say you wanted to qualify a post so that only when your sunrise Facebook friends name could see IT. To start, you have to click on the lock icon below your News program Feed's text edition entry boxwood and select "Custom" from the drop down menu. In the succeeding pop-up window you have two choices: "Make this panoptical to" and "Hide this from." If you want to share something with only your specific list then you'd select "Specific hoi polloi" subordinate the "Wee-wee this visible to" section and and so type in the appoint of your new list and hit "Save Setting." This is a one-time deepen, but if you plan to merely share with a specific leaning Beaver State a specific gear up of lists you can mark the "Make this my default setting" box in the get down left corner.

The different way to manage your friend lists is to tick on "Account" in the upper right corner of your Facebook homepage and select "Privacy Settings." Then sink in happening "Customize settings" and in the next window you can select a variety of dea options for things such Eastern Samoa your surround posts, determine ins, photos, email name and address and so forth. You manage these settings pretty a lot the same way as a wall post. Just click along the throw-down menu, select "Customize" and in the next window decide on the people you want to relieve oneself this content visible to and the people you want to hide it from.

Facebook's friends lists aren't as easy to use as Google+'s Circles, but Circle Hack takes a little bit of the pain out of organizing your Facebook friends. Give it a whirl, but just remember Circle Hack appears to be more of a fun application than an developed-strength Facebook tool.

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