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By now, most Facebook users are aware by some means or another that the company has made changes to its privacy settings. Though these updates have largely been controversial<\/a>, there are a handful of changes that are actually good and some that are at least neutral. They are also just different enough (but in a subtle way) to make our previous Facebook privacy guide<\/a> a little outdated, so we thought we would go over some of the settings again to help our readers lock down their profiles as they please.<\/p>\n The good news: you can still divide up your friends into lists—as many or as few lists as you like! As we discussed in our previous privacy guide, the reason you want to do this is so you can divvy up permissions (which we will show you later), and you can do this by going to your Friends > All Friends > Create a new list.<\/p>\n
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