Facebook’s new feature “Interest lists” organizes a newsfeed into a personalized newspaper, letting users create and subscribe to topical feeds like “social media” or some niche blogging topics

Although the Add List link can’t currently be seen on your facebook profile you can use this direct url to start experimenting with this new feature now. https://www.facebook.com/addlist

Here is an excerpt from the announcement: 

Lists on Facebook are a great way to organize your friends and focus on the people who matter most. Starting today, you also have interest lists—a whole new way to keep up with stuff you care about and tidy up your experience on Facebook.

Interest lists can help you turn Facebook into your own personalized newspaper, with special sections—or feeds—for topics that matter to you. You can find traditional news sections like Business, Sports and Style or get much more personalized—like Tech News, NBA Players, and Art Critics.

http://newsroom.fb.com/Announcements/Introducing-Interest-Lists-109.aspx

I just made one, too. You’re right, this can be really helpful!

Thanks, @juleswebb!

Very interesting development!  From what I’ve seen, you can’t view the lists if you are logged in as a Page, it’s only visible for personal profiles.  You don’t get a notification that your Page has been put on a list which is unfortunate.  But I think it could be a very cool feature to become more visible as your Page!

This looks great @juleswebb. Thanks for letting us know about this.

I am loving interest lists. I’ve created a few for my business so I can easily keep track of advertisers and members. Makes it a lot easier and also means that other fans who want to keep track of sponsor offers can do so. I’m thinking about creating lists according to our daily  themes too to make it easier for fans to find relevant businesses. In theory it could almost work like a social directory. Loving, loving, loving!

Hi @juleswebb. No, not created as my page. You have to do it from your profile but the lists can be subscribed to by anyone who shares your interests so you could promote them on your page. The links sit at the bottom of my “home” page.

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Amy Porterfield posted a great how to video on interest list and how you can use them for your pages:

How to Create Facebook Interest Lists

http://www.amyporterfield.com/2012/03/how-to-create-facebook-interest-lists/

I’m not entirely clear how these are different from friend lists which allow people and pages and work like a filter for your newsfeed. Can anyone explain how they are different?

I’ve been wanting to learn more about interest lists from the standpoint of a fan page creating the list, but it seems that’s not possible yet. Thanks for the mention of the Amy P video, I will give that a look through. I watched one from Fan Page Engine today, but I felt it was a little misleading in that it wasn’t specifically shown that the lists needed to be created as your personal profile and NOT as a page admin.