Facebook Lets You Filter Friends By City
Facebook has quietly introduced a way for you to find friends in particular cities. It’s a new version of a feature it had removed when it deprecated the “networks” part of user profiles a few months ago.
Within the Friends page on the site, you can now filter friends by the city the live in. Slightly older versions of this page — which itself is a new version of an older friends page — only offered ways to browse based on college, high school and workplaces. The new feature could be especially valuable for people trying to find long-lost friends who might be located nearby.
Back when Facebook had regional networks, it didn’t offer this sort of filter, but offered a more general tool where users could see who else was in the regional network. This new feature is actually more precise, by showing you not just regions — which had grown to include entire countries — but just the city you list on your profile.
September 10th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
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September 11th, 2009 at 2:58 am
Dear Editor,
very good article.full of latest information with new applications in face book.
I am a very active member in face book.
Full freedom of expression prevails in face book.
more and more friends,more and more lively adding applications for its users.
September 11th, 2009 at 3:07 am
>> Back when Facebook had networks …
What do you mean “had networks”? It still does. Go to settings, second tab.
Check your facts.
September 11th, 2009 at 6:40 am
Thanks Andy, that meant “regional networks” not networks altogether. That sentence has been clarified.
September 11th, 2009 at 9:18 am
I also noticed that when inviting people to an Event, Group, or suggesting a Fan Page, you can filter friends by location (city?) as well. Let’s call this the “invitation filter”.
The “invitation filter” seems to work differently from the Browse Friends filter. For example, when I used the invitation filter for Tuczon AZ, it found a friend who is NOT findable from the Browse Friends filter for Tuczon AZ.
To understand why, I went to her profile. She doesn’t list Current City, but under Employer, the company is located in Tuczon AZ. Seems like Facebook was smart(?) enough to capture that data for the invitation filter.
September 11th, 2009 at 10:00 am
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September 11th, 2009 at 10:21 am
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September 11th, 2009 at 11:54 am
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September 11th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
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September 12th, 2009 at 12:29 am
I was just wondering if/when Facebook would get to adding a feature like this a few months ago. Thanks for the update Eric!
September 14th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
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September 16th, 2009 at 8:03 am
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March 5th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Seems like this feature may have disappeared again in the recent redesign. At least, I’ve spend the last 15 minutes trying to find it to no avail…
April 25th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Yeah seems like the feature has been removed.
March 29th, 2012 at 12:28 pm
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