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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

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.

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.