Do you have seperate facebook accounts for family and friends?

[SamRoc]

All off a sudden alot of family members are joining facebook and making a million posts about a reunion. I would like to keep them seperate from friends. Not sure if i should just start a new page and ask friends to accept me there, or is there a way so the both groups can't view eachothers posts on the wall. Have been searching and am a little confused. Thanks!

 

[swald91]

All of my friends & family are on the same acct. I had a problem yesterday though-I thought I was going to set up (application) for people checking my profile & apparently it sent messages to random friends tell them I was peeping them-a freind quickly informed me it could be a virus...UGH! I spent nearly 4 hrs running the virus scan-I plan on being VERY careful there now-friends or family asking me to join stuff!

 

[SamRoc]

I dont have a problem with my family and friends being on the same account, its just that my huge family is taking over!

 

[pigletgirl]

Yeah, my family is about 30% of my facebook friends. I only have one account.

 

[Caitsmama]

You can have one account - but just create different "lists" or "groups" of people, and you can even control who sees your posts - so you don't have to have all your old classmates viewing family posts.. etc.. no need for separate FB accounts.

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

I'm not sure how you do it, but you can break your fb friends up into different groups. Then you can control what each group gets to see. I don't do it but my 15 year old neice does. It got a little crazy when her Grandmothers were commenting on things her friends wrote. I think one of her guy friends wrote a curse....a minor one at that...and my Mom told him to watch his mouth I thought my niece would die!!

Now she has it so that certain family members can only see certain things. Her Mom gets to see everything, ofcourse.

 

[Kathi OD]

I only have one account, but have it set up so that some people can only see some things. I know that my extended family, and even some of my close family, don't care what I'm growing on my farm.

 

[dislaney]

I have one account but have changed my privacy settings to accommodate this.

 

[daisy2jae]

I have one account with my family and friends. I also have my daycare parents on it.

 

[disykat]

I'm new to Facebook and it confuses me. I tried to be all annonymous, but one high school friend found me and now I have about 50 of my "closest friends" from high school as friends. These are people I barely knew in high school.

I tried to make a separate account for high school friends, but it wrote a label on them and separated them out so I stopped. I don't want it to be obvious which friends I am relegating to a separate list because I do have a few high school friends I would keep on my normal list.

I want to separate out the people I only accepted because they friended me and I didn't want to seem rude in case I see them at a reunion in 10 years. I have no desire to see their feed or have them see mine. Currently I just have their feeds hidden.

Can I separate lists without it being obvious I have done so?

 

[SamRoc]

Thanks everyone for your responses. How do i go about making it so my family doesnt read all my crazy posts by my friends and vise versa! I went to profile and privacy but got lost after that!