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Facebook needs a way for you to form groups of friends that mimic real life social groupings so that you can share info with the appropriate group(s) with the a

by budu3 16y ago

Facebook needs a way for you to form groups of friends that mimic real life social groupings so that you can share info with the appropriate group(s) with the added complexity of this being done with as less effort from the user as possible. I don't think their current implementation of friend lists is working.

tokenadult 16y ago
Facebook needs a way for you to form groups of friends that mimic real life social groupings I have been using such a feature for months now. It is called Facebook private groups, https://www.facebook.com/groups https://www.facebook.com/groups and I have told fellow HNers about this feature before. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319788 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319788 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398397 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398397 To expand on what I wrote last time, one good use case on Facebook is a group of friends with a defined commonality forming a "private group." The Help Center page about groups features https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=414 https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=414 is perhaps even more helpful than the main Facebook page introducing the concept of private groups. I have a THRIVING private group including a whole bunch of friends who are currently or were formerly subscribers to the national email list of a membership organization we have all been part of. The official email lists of the organization have gone increasingly quiet, as everyone moves over to Facebook, where the atmosphere is at once more fun (more light-hearted topics) and more serious (gut-wrenching intimate topics that are easier to share to a specific group of friends than to all subscribers to an email list). I have had good success restricting status messages, links, and the like to subsets of my friends (friend lists) and even better success having many interesting conversations on the most active of the Facebook private groups that I am on. To me, the currently most frustrating aspect of the Facebook user interface is the hard limit of twenty recipients on a private message. Raising that to about thirty would fit my use cases a lot better some of the time. But so far Facebook's adaptations have worked well for me to keep up with a very diverse group of friends, relatives, co-workers, and former classmates met in two different countries on two continents.
samtp 16y ago
Sounds like the concept behind Color (the one with all the money)

by budu3 16y ago

tokenadult 16y ago

Facebook needs a way for you to form groups of friends that mimic real life social groupings I have been using such a feature for months now. It is called Facebook private groups, https://www.facebook.com/groups https://www.facebook.com/groups and I have told fellow HNers about this feature before. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319788 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319788 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398397 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398397 To expand on what I wrote last time, one good use case on Facebook is a group of friends with a defined commonality forming a "private group." The Help Center page about groups features https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=414 https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=414 is perhaps even more helpful than the main Facebook page introducing the concept of private groups. I have a THRIVING private group including a whole bunch of friends who are currently or were formerly subscribers to the national email list of a membership organization we have all been part of. The official email lists of the organization have gone increasingly quiet, as everyone moves over to Facebook, where the atmosphere is at once more fun (more light-hearted topics) and more serious (gut-wrenching intimate topics that are easier to share to a specific group of friends than to all subscribers to an email list). I have had good success restricting status messages, links, and the like to subsets of my friends (friend lists) and even better success having many interesting conversations on the most active of the Facebook private groups that I am on. To me, the currently most frustrating aspect of the Facebook user interface is the hard limit of twenty recipients on a private message. Raising that to about thirty would fit my use cases a lot better some of the time. But so far Facebook's adaptations have worked well for me to keep up with a very diverse group of friends, relatives, co-workers, and former classmates met in two different countries on two continents.

samtp 16y ago

Sounds like the concept behind Color (the one with all the money)