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A quick guide to finding your Facebook Friends list order
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This wikiHow teaches you how to see a list of your closest Facebook friends. The people with whom you interact most often (via likes, messages, and comments) and those for whom you regularly search typically show up at the top of your friends list. Keep in mind that Facebook uses a secret algorithm to determine who your best friends are, and the algorithm changes often.

How to Find Your FB Top Friends

  • On mobile, go to the Facebook app and tap > Find Friends > All Friends. The names at the top are the people you are most connected to.
  • On a computer, go to Facebook and open your profile. Go to Friends. The top 5-10 people are who you are most connected to.
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On Mobile

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  1. Tap the Facebook app icon, which is a blue square containing a white "f." This will load your News Feed if you're already logged in.
    • If you aren't already logged in, enter your email address and password before continuing.
  2. It's the three horizontal lines at either the bottom-right corner of the screen (iPhone/iPad) or the top-right corner of the screen (Android). you can also look for "Friends" button on top and click that instead.
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  3. You can find this option on the top of the page.
  4. Anyone appearing near the top of the page is someone that Facebook has determined to be one of your best friends.
    • People further down the list are friends with whom you haven't interacted as much as people near the top.
    • A good rule of thumb is to consider the top five to ten people in this list as the people to whom you are most connected. This takes into account your interactions with them, but not necessarily their interactions with you.
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On a Computer

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  1. Go to https://www.facebook.com. This will open your News Feed if you're already logged into Facebook.
    • If you aren't logged into Facebook, enter your email address and password into the fields to do so now.
  2. It's the tab near the top of the left menu that displays your name and profile photo. This opens your profile page.
  3. This option is in the menu just below your cover photo, which is at the top of your profile. Your friends list will appear.
  4. Anyone appearing near the top of the list is someone whom Facebook considers to be one of your best friends (e.g., someone to whom you're strongly connected).
    • Consider the top five to ten people in this list to be the people to whom you're most connected. This takes into account your interactions with them, but not necessarily their interactions with you.
    • The further down on the list someone is, the less you've interacted with them; the exception to this is if you add someone and immediately begin talking to them or viewing their posts.
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    Turn chat off (for everyone or just the people you don't want be seen by). Keep in mind that if you post something people will see you're online, unless you hide your posts from them. Make sure to turn off all notifications/automatic posts for any games you play.
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    When you are on the page source, hit ctrl+f and type "lastActiveTimes"; type in the number as shown above.
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    You can try asking your friends to see if they know, but there's no way to tell through the site.
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  • If you've added someone to the "Close Friends" list on Facebook, they will automatically appear closer to the top of the list than they might if you hadn't added them to "Close Friends".
  • Do not install any Facebook app that claims to track who visits your profile. Facebook has not revealed any way to track who views your profile, so any app claiming otherwise is at best spam and at worst a virus.
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To find out who you're closest to on Facebook, look at the top of your friends list.The friends with whom you exchange the most likes, messages, and comments, as well as the profiles you visit often, tend to show up as the first 10 to 20 people on your friends list. To find your closest Facebook friends on a smartphone or tablet, open the Facebook app, tap the menu icon, and then tap Friends. If you're using a computer, sign in to Facebook.com, and then click your name near the top-right corner to open your profile. Near the top of your profile, click Friends just below your cover photo.

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