Friend Splitting: Doing Personal AND Business on Facebook

Posted September 29th, 2009

Tips, Videos

So you’ve got a Facebook account and added a couple of dozen friends. In time, you begin to add some business contacts as well. Since your business contacts can now see your profile, you’re faced with a dilemma.

  • Do you stop posting any personal comments like jokes, updates about your family, etc.?
  • Or do you post only business information from now on, irritating your friends and family?

There’s a better solution, and it’s called Friend Splitting.


In these five short videos, I’ll show you how to split your friends into different groups (“lists”), send different status messages to different lists, prevent certain lists from seeing updates (e.g., prevent your business colleagues from seeing information about your personal life), and more.

This is a small portion of what I present during my popular “The Eight Keys to Marketing Online: Get More Leads and Close More Sales” seminar.

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  • "So you’ve got a Facebook account and added a couple of dozen friends. In time, you begin to add some business contacts as well."

    If you (not you Tod; the general "you") didn't want your business contacts to see you as anything other than a business entity, why did you add them as friends in Facebook?
  • Guest
    That's odd... I'd assumed everyone got it, but I logged into one of my test accounts and noted that it didn't have the pull-down link either. Perhaps you need a certain number in friends in friend lists for it to work?
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