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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