How and Why to make a list of friends on Facebook

January 26, 2011 by albertkaufman 6 Comments

Facebook Friends’ Lists

Recently I realized that I was losing track of what my closest friends on Facebook are up to and that it was time to make a list of just the friends I’m closest to so I don’t miss them in the information overload which is the news feed. One could create a list of friends, fellow activists or people who post interesting things. Here’s how I did it step by step.

10.7.17 – the Steps have changed since I first wrote this in 2010. See the following image and follow along:

Under Explore on the Left Side – Click on Friends Lists
Click on Create List
Give Your List a Name and Pick a Member or Two
Adjust at will – I’ll put the various images below in a little box for your you should see these in a clockwise order starting from the top left.

Enjoy your new view of your friends. You’ll probably learn quickly that this new list doesn’t change as quickly as all of the information on the news feed, but the information seems rich in a way that the news feeds don’t. IMHO.

I have lots to say about Facebook, Btw. Here’s another article On Friend-culling! Enjoy!

Filed Under: Facebook Lists Tagged With: facebook, facebook lists, friendship, list, lists, making a list, new facebook, personal lists in facebook, staying close

Friends of Trees March 12th Planting in Irvington – update!

January 13, 2011 by albertkaufman Leave a Comment

Planting Trees in Irvington

Hi there,

Here’s an update I sent to my Irvington neighbors about our upcoming tree planting. I invite you to come to our planting on Saturday, March 12th and plant some trees with us!

1. I’d like to have t-shirts made for our tree planting. I’m going to talk to the board of the Irvington N’hood Association tonight (1/13) at their meeting at the Irvington School at 7pm about this and give them an update on the tree planting – come join me if you’d like to speak in favor of this idea or just to meet your neighbors.

2. if you haven’t picked out your tree yet, or just love to learn about trees, there will be a presentation by the fantastic (really) Jim Gersbach on 1.20. Info here

3. If you’re interested in planting a tree in your yard or planting strip, time to order is now. Please click here and order your trees – times running out to be a part of this year’s planting – click here

4. If you’d like to help me canvas NE Broadway businesses for food/drink donations for the day of planting, please email me back.

5. Next Tuesday (1/18), @ 5:30, I’ll be meeting with the other FOT n’hood coordinators from Sabin, Grant and Alameda and Jesse from FOT to talk about our planting and things we need to do before then. If you’d like to come and join us, you’re welcome.

6. Got a pick up truck we can use on the day of the planting? Great, let me know!

7. I hope you had a great New years and are enjoying 2011. If you’re curious who I am and what I’m about in the world, please have a peek at my newsletter, the Eleven, which comes out every month. If you want to receive the newsletter, just let me know. https://tinyurl.com/oneeleveneleven

Thanks for helping to make our corner of the world a little greener and possibly a little sweeter (think about planting fruit trees 🙂

Sincerely,

Albert Kaufman
Irvington Friends of Trees
Neighborhood Coordinator

Filed Under: tree planting Tagged With: FOT, Friends of Trees, fruit trees, Irvington, plant trees, Portland

2010 in Review

January 3, 2011 by albertkaufman Leave a Comment

2010 in Review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 7,900 times in 2010. That’s about 19 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 52 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 85 posts. There were 312 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 564mb. That’s about 6 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was August 19th with 239 views. The most popular post that day was Beloved 2010.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, mail.yahoo.com, mail.live.com, archive.constantcontact.com, and twitter.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for lawn, population growth, world population growth, world population growth chart, and world population chart.