We all have a couple Facebook friends that we added during one lonely post-drinking binge night, or one person that we recognized in our early Facebook days but have since forgotten about and now we wonder how many things we’ve written in our updates that could possibly have offended them. A lot of us steer clear of choosing to “go online” while checking in on Facebook because we have that one friend that spends all day, every day waiting for someone to sign on so they have someone to dump their ailments and issues on. Facebook recognizes this, and after over a year of begging, Facebook users with friendemies can feel free to turn that green light on the lower right corner of their window.
Rob Goodlatte (real name?) of Facebook writes:
Since we launched Facebook Chat, many of you have asked for ways to organize your connections and to control which friends see you online. Maybe you want to be online with your best friends but offline with your work colleagues. You can now do that by using Friend Lists to filter your connections in Chat.
Friend Lists let you group friends to more easily share with and view information from specific sets of people. You already can use them to filter your home page, send Inbox messages and manage privacy settings.
From the bottom right corner of your browser, go online with Chat and choose which lists you’d like to include in the Chat pane. You can use your existing lists or create new lists directly from Chat.
The rest of the article, with instructions on how to block your friendemies is here: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=84283397130
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