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January 28th, 2010 | 
Author: Let’s face it, many of us are addicted to Facebook!
You use your phone to update your status, you are checking it while you are work and any where you can! One of the great features with Facebook is the online chat. However, how often have you been sitting in your cubicle or been somewhere where perhaps you shouldn’t have been online? If someone pops up to chat you might not have time to chat, or you could be friends with fellow co-workers, or even your boss! Might be better if they didn’t know you were spending your time online right?
Well, in Facebook you can use a list to control who sees you are online. In the following screenshots I have tried to make the names unrecognizable, to protect the innocent!! 
From the chat on the bottom right of Facebook, click on it to open it. Click on Friends Lists. Simply type in a name for your new list. In this case I am creating one to put in people that I work with that I don’t always want to know I am online.
Once you have added your list, you will now see it at the top of the Chat section. You can drag any of the Friends that are currently listed in the chat section and pull them into the new Work list created.
Alternatively, when you hover your mouse over the list name in the chat box, the word edit will appear. Click on this and you will see the following window appear. From here you can select all of the people who you wish to add to this list.
Finally, once you are finished adding friends to the list, you can then select if you wish to Go offline to a certain list. Simply click on the online icon (the green icon) next to the name of your list. Now all of the people in that list will not see you online!
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If you have had your Facebook Profile or Fan Page for a while, you might not know that you can select your own unique url. This makes it easier to give a client the link of http://www.facebook.com/GeorgiaTrolleyServices rather than giving them the link of http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lawrenceville-GA/Georgia-Trolley-Services/78159213364?ref=ts. The first is a lot catchier and easy to remember!
So how do you do it? You need to be logged in to your account first of all. Then simply type in the following url:
You will then be prompted to select your preferred username:
Keep in mind that if your name is John Smith, chances of you getting this name as your unique url are pretty slim! You might have to get creative. Usernames are a relatively new option that were introduced around the middle of 2009. It was announced that the feature was coming and some users grabbed their username as soon as they were able to! With the first launch of this, you could only select the username for your profile and not for your Fan Page. So, many people (including myself) used their business name as their username. I am kicking myself now because I have a Megan Walker Facebook Profile with the username of http://www.facebook.com/PurpleStarConsulting but then have a Fan Page with a url of http://www.facebook.com/PSConsulting. If I could choose again I would, but once you pick the url, you are stuck with it!
If the username is available, you can select it by clicking Confirm. If you are not sure, click Cancel and search for something else. As I said, this is final so you want to be sure! Once you click Confirm, you can start sending people your new Facebook url! A lot easier and simpler to remember. *** (while this facebook url is real, it is used for a test account and is not monitored)
Want some free and shameless promotion? Post your own unique Facebook url! Let’s see what you got!
