Facebook Killer Feature Arrives
Posted by Nick O'Neill on December 19th, 2007 10:07 AMI previously called this feature the “LinkedIn Killer.” Facebook has now added the ability to group your friends into custom groups. You can name each group and create as many groups as you like. While there aren’t custom privacy setting for each list there is a nice feature where you are able to message everyone within each group. Have a group of business contacts that you would like to message? Maybe a group of fans? Now you can finally group each of those people together.
While I believe that the next step would be to have custom privacy settings, this is a great step by Facebook. I am immediately going to go group my friends just as Mark Cuban described last night. This is a really great feature and I’m sure it will help many of us that have a friend list that is way to long (or as some would argue, the insecure group).
Is this feature going to enable you to switch over from LinkedIn?
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*Group A sees all (great Friends)
*Group B sees all less Group A, (good friends)
*Group C and D see only C or D (family and work)
Also FB should also make certain Apps seen by certain groups!
From what the blog at Facebook says, this 'could' be a feature we see next year!
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also needs to be more integration of friend lists into other parts of
Facebook. For example, I should be able to invite all my friends from
one list to an event, or a group. As well as the ability to select a
specific list in the fb:multi-friend-selector when sending invitations
to use an application.
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I also want a way of seeing who's not in a list, so I don't miss anyone out.
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I've got friends in over 600 different networks -- ever think about the option for alphabetizing?
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You have what, 2 friends on Facebook? Do you really need to "group" when you've got 2 friends?
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On a separate note, while I really like the newfound ability to group friends, I really miss the old newsfeed 'see all' functionality. I'm not interested in having to scroll through all of my friends updates to see what I missed amongst them all. There needs to still be an easy way to view it chronologically and to see multiple postings by the same person. Please bring back my primary reason for continually visiting facebook though out the day!
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A feature is missing : showing friends that are not in a group and selecting groups for them.
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