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Facebook has "circles" but they are called "groups." I think Friend Lists is what you may be referring to. They need to make the feature easier to use/find, a

• smackfu 15y ago
  Yeah, they have been pushing Groups (like including it in the sidebar) but it's not very useful for privacy filtering since it tells the group members they are in the groups. Given that, Friends Lists aren't especially hidden either. Account > Edit Friends > Add a list. But using them for privacy is hard: you need to select custom privacy, then say show to specific people, then type in the friend list name in a box that looks like it only expects a person's name. Kludgy. (The iPhone app is actually much better here: it just includes the friends lists in the privacy dropdown.)
  • ahalam 15y ago
    Wouldn't Facebook massively improve usability by just including the Lists in the drop down list in the web interface also? It is actually not too hard if they approach this incrementally.
• prostoalex 15y ago
  One could argue that it's a chicken-and-egg problem, but a year ago friend lists were easier to find, allowed filtered per-list access to your News Feed and ... "Tonight at a Facebook Developer’s Garage meeting at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Zuckerberg fielded a question about the service’s privacy controls. He said that the ideal solution for sharing different things with different people is to make a friend list. “But guess what? Nobody wants to make lists,” Zuckerberg admitted." http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/26/facebook-friend-lists/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/26/facebook-friend-lists/
  • commandar 15y ago
    That's because Facebook's lists, as implemented are A. cumbersome and B. sometimes just decide not to work anyway. I absolutely love Circles, and it's more or less what I always wanted Facebook lists to be.
• jasonlotito 15y ago
  That users of HN can't properly comment about Groups or Lists without confusion is telling.