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"Facebook says that all my friends and contacts are of equal importance to me. They know this isn’t true, but there is no way for me to distinguish between frie

"Facebook says that all my friends and contacts are of equal importance to me. They know this isn’t true, but there is no way for me to distinguish between friends I am truly close with or contacts that I met at a conference and felt obliged to accept on Facebook." Facebook tackles this problem with EdgeRank algorithm that controls the updates that appear in Newsfeeds. EdgeRank takes into consideration the people you interact with the most on Facebook. And I guess, a person interacts a lot with close friends only.

tomjen3 16y ago
Thats not at all useful though. Because there are things that you want to share only with some people (your girlfriend) or close family. Interestingly enough there are things I wouldn't care if the entire world except my family knew so the circles aren't enclosed within one and other.
- start123 16y ago
  Ya, Facebook has answer for this- "Facebook GROUPS". It lets you separate people based on the connection you have with them. For ex, you could have groups like Family, Friends, Collegeus etc. So that an update is restricted within than circle.
  - reneherse 16y ago
    Well I haven't had success in getting my old girlfriends to join my "psycho exes" group, so I'm not sure how effective Facebook's system currently is ;)
    - haribilalic 16y ago
      He's referring to Friend Lists (https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=768 https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=768). If you use Twitter, it's like Twitter's lists. Facebook's privacy settings are now pretty good. You can make things visible or invisible to everyone, networks, friends of friends, friends, friend lists or individuals and any combination of these things, e.g. a status update visible only to family except my mother.
      - mike-cardwell 16y ago
        Will it allow me to split my friends into separate lists, and then have separate news feeds for each of those lists? I can see that I am able to post a status update and specify a list when I do it, but it ends up getting mixed into my normal news feed and doesn't have any indication of who can see it. This just feels dangerous to me. I'll start using Facebook lists when they implement it properly. I want my lists of friends to be 100% completely separate. Separate walls, separate news feeds, and I want it to be very obvious which group I am currently working with at any time. If they can't give me that, I'm not interested.
        bugmenot 16y ago
        Unfortunately, you can't really trust them to implement that properly, IMO. The solution is to use separate accounts.
        reneherse 16y ago
        That's exactly my take on these features. Some of this functionality may be there, but the UI and UX is so horrible that there is little way to predict the output of the system.

tomjen3 16y ago

Thats not at all useful though. Because there are things that you want to share only with some people (your girlfriend) or close family. Interestingly enough there are things I wouldn't care if the entire world except my family knew so the circles aren't enclosed within one and other.

start123 16y ago
Ya, Facebook has answer for this- "Facebook GROUPS". It lets you separate people based on the connection you have with them. For ex, you could have groups like Family, Friends, Collegeus etc. So that an update is restricted within than circle.
- reneherse 16y ago
  Well I haven't had success in getting my old girlfriends to join my "psycho exes" group, so I'm not sure how effective Facebook's system currently is ;)
  - haribilalic 16y ago
    He's referring to Friend Lists (https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=768 https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=768). If you use Twitter, it's like Twitter's lists. Facebook's privacy settings are now pretty good. You can make things visible or invisible to everyone, networks, friends of friends, friends, friend lists or individuals and any combination of these things, e.g. a status update visible only to family except my mother.
    - mike-cardwell 16y ago
      Will it allow me to split my friends into separate lists, and then have separate news feeds for each of those lists? I can see that I am able to post a status update and specify a list when I do it, but it ends up getting mixed into my normal news feed and doesn't have any indication of who can see it. This just feels dangerous to me. I'll start using Facebook lists when they implement it properly. I want my lists of friends to be 100% completely separate. Separate walls, separate news feeds, and I want it to be very obvious which group I am currently working with at any time. If they can't give me that, I'm not interested.
      - bugmenot 16y ago
        Unfortunately, you can't really trust them to implement that properly, IMO. The solution is to use separate accounts.
      - reneherse 16y ago
        That's exactly my take on these features. Some of this functionality may be there, but the UI and UX is so horrible that there is little way to predict the output of the system.