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Categorizing emails is inherently simpler than categorizing your friends. It's so simple that you can automate a lot of it (though you could suggest friend list

• michaelchisari 16y ago
  It depends on how categorization works. If it works more like labels (ie, I can add a friend to multiple groups), then it works great. If you have to choose only one group for a friend, then it breaks down immediately. And beyond that, privacy controls which allowed you to do "AND" type operators would make those even more useful. It's pretty easy to code, the hard part is a usable, intuitive UI, and I find it hard to believe that Facebook, with all their resources, can't come up with a way to solve that. And plus, even if a minority uses a feature like that, it's important enough to provide, because user education will result in a gradual adoption.
  • natrius 16y ago
    It works like labels, but it's still hard, and it's not that useful anyway. The new groups are a simpler concept that provide an easier way to share with a limited group of people. > And plus, even if a minority uses a feature like that, it's important enough to provide, because user education will result in a gradual adoption. Friend lists as they exist today allow users to limit the visibility of posts to the exact set of people the user wants to see them. From what Facebook has said, it seems like user education did not result in meaningful gradual adoption.