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Facebook hasn't sunk really but this is certainly their achille's heel. What FB badly needs is a concept of social circles or a better implemented groups and an

by barista 16y ago

Facebook hasn't sunk really but this is certainly their achille's heel. What FB badly needs is a concept of social circles or a better implemented groups and an intelligent way to restrict shared stuff from being more public than it needs to be. The author just overestimated the impact of the issue but the issues still exists and is very real.

nopal 16y ago
I recently created a list of friends that is a subset of my friends and changed the default level of sharing on everything I post to only be accessible by this list. This basically creates a sub-Facebook in which my close friends and I operate. I still see stuff come in from other people in my main friends list, but they don't see anything I do (unless I explicitly post on someone else's public item). It's working out very nicely.
- theli0nheart 16y ago
  The problem is that lists don't work both ways. People in cliques are generally aware of who is in the clique and who is not. Friend lists are one-sided; only one person (you) knows who is in the list and who is not. There are no checks in place to ensure that interaction in one group doesn't spill over into another group. In real life, when you hang out with a group of people, everyone else is aware of who you are hanging out with at that moment. Facebook shows this information only to the poster. I am uncomfortable posting a comment on a friend's update that would be embarrassing depending on who else could see it. In a group of friends hanging out this would never be an issue. I suppose there is some asymmetry in real-life social networks, but nothing on the level which Facebook encourages.
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  - Florin_Andrei 16y ago
    Right, so basically they need to create "rooms" on Facebook. Just like real life.
yesimahuman 16y ago
While I would like a better defined social circle feature, I think Facebook would lose a lot of appeal to many people if suddenly they could only access their closest social circle. Voyeurism is a very powerful part of being a Facebook user.
dot 16y ago
I think this should be possible automatically. It wouldn't be easy and you're not going to make everyone happy. 90%. When posting party photos, only show them to people that either - also attended the party - attended previous parties with me - interacts/chats with me often and is not in my professional (or family) network ... It would need to be a lot more subtle than that, but it should be possible with all the data they're collecting.

by barista 16y ago

nopal 16y ago

I recently created a list of friends that is a subset of my friends and changed the default level of sharing on everything I post to only be accessible by this list. This basically creates a sub-Facebook in which my close friends and I operate. I still see stuff come in from other people in my main friends list, but they don't see anything I do (unless I explicitly post on someone else's public item). It's working out very nicely.

theli0nheart 16y ago
The problem is that lists don't work both ways. People in cliques are generally aware of who is in the clique and who is not. Friend lists are one-sided; only one person (you) knows who is in the list and who is not. There are no checks in place to ensure that interaction in one group doesn't spill over into another group. In real life, when you hang out with a group of people, everyone else is aware of who you are hanging out with at that moment. Facebook shows this information only to the poster. I am uncomfortable posting a comment on a friend's update that would be embarrassing depending on who else could see it. In a group of friends hanging out this would never be an issue. I suppose there is some asymmetry in real-life social networks, but nothing on the level which Facebook encourages.
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- Florin_Andrei 16y ago
  Right, so basically they need to create "rooms" on Facebook. Just like real life.

yesimahuman 16y ago

While I would like a better defined social circle feature, I think Facebook would lose a lot of appeal to many people if suddenly they could only access their closest social circle. Voyeurism is a very powerful part of being a Facebook user.

dot 16y ago

I think this should be possible automatically. It wouldn't be easy and you're not going to make everyone happy. 90%. When posting party photos, only show them to people that either - also attended the party - attended previous parties with me - interacts/chats with me often and is not in my professional (or family) network ... It would need to be a lot more subtle than that, but it should be possible with all the data they're collecting.