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You can wall off groups of people within Facebook, but the effort required to do this is beyond the motivation level that I'd expect most Facebook users (myself
by noarchy 15y ago
You can wall off groups of people within Facebook, but the effort required to do this is beyond the motivation level that I'd expect most Facebook users (myself included) to have. Like privacy, making Facebook more tolerable to use is an opt-in thing, requiring proactive measures by the user.
- r00fus 15y agoIf walling off your group is equivalently difficult to creating a yahoo/google group, then yeah. Facebook's entire premise is that people LIKE being heard/seen and LIKE seeing/hearing others, in their social graph. What is really needed is multiple distinct social graphs per user with distinct walls between them, done elegantly... this isn't an easy problem to solve. There was a really nice presentation from a Googler (who subsequently moved to Facebook) which described this problem eloquently... but I can't seem to find the link.
- grandalf 15y agoInteresting. I'd love to see the presentation if you (or anyone else) end(s) up finding the link. It's interesting to consider the threshold for the sort of social discomfort I described above. In my case it hit around 2/3 of my current friend count.
- interknot 15y agoHere's the previous HN discussion for the (likely) article in question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1867807 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1867807
- FiddlerClamp 15y agoEven that process is confusing. I've created concentric circles of friends based on privacy levels (specific interest, friends, friends of friends, all). But what if I like a post that a specific-interest friend has posted? Does that mean all of my friends (or everyone) will see that like and that post?