How do you appear offline on the Facebook app?

As you might be aware of, Facebookoffers a variety of communication options to its users. You can send someone a message, write on their wall or chat with them. You can access chat via the chat interface in the lower right corner.

Once you are online, you can view which of your friends are online and they will be able to see you online as well. Generally, Facebook only provides the options to go offline or online. Apart from this, the only other status available is 'Idle' which appears next to your name after a prolonged period of inactivity.

But how can you be invisible on Facebook to certain users? This is how.

You can also create lists to group your friends in Facebook. The lists appear in the chat interface as well. In addition, you can also create new lists to group your friends from the chat window. This is the functionality that we would be using to appear offline. For completeness, here is how you create a list from the chat interface.

• Click on the Friend Lists label in the chat window. A dialog will pop up asking you for list name.
• Key in a name for the list and hit Enter. This will create a list in your chat window.
• When the list is empty, Facebook displays a message letting you know that you can drag and drop friends' names to make them a part of the list. Go ahead, choose the ones that you want to put in a list and they will be added.