Facebook provides two types of Friend List
- Smart Lists
These are the lists that update automatically based on your info which you have in common with your friends, like a college, job, etc. So, if your from a particular city and one of your friend changes its city to yours, then he/she will automatically updated to the smart list based on your city. - Custom Lists
You can also create Friend List based on your custom criteria and you have the choice to select which friends goes into that list.
You can find more information about Friend Lists over here.
You can create custom Friend List in Facebook to organize your friends based on a particular criteria like your class, school/ college, job, etc. When you select any friend in a Custom Friend list, he won’t get notified about that. And best feature of these lists is that you can apply different privacy restrictions on every Friend List.
Instructions:
- Log into your Facebook account and then on your Home page, click on the MORE link for Friends section in left sidebar below to the Groupssection.
- Now in the next page, click on the + Create Listbutton at the top of page as shown in the following image.
- In the Create New List dialogue, enter the name of your list and you can also select Friends by typing their name in the Members box as shown in the following image. When finished, click the Createbutton to create list.
- It will open your new Friend List page. You can also add Friends or Facebook Pages to Friend Listas shown in the following image.



