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The relationships on Facebook appear boolean, but they are hardly treated as such by Facebook. They have many ways of determining how "close" I am with any one
by karpathy 14y ago
The relationships on Facebook appear boolean, but they are hardly treated as such by Facebook. They have many ways of determining how "close" I am with any one of my friends by looking at the number of times I interact with them, view their pictures, etc. They also let you explicitly mark how much of each friend you want to see in your news feed. Then it is only a matter of weighting their updates accordingly. So I would argue that Facebook knows about this and does the right thing (or at least tries to).
- mbell 14y ago> They also let you explicitly mark how much of each friend you want to see in your news feed. Part of the problem is the lack of a reverse of this function. That is there is no(easy) way to turn down what you share with them. This is the problem G+ circles tries to solve.
- ivankirigin 14y agoFB has a notion of close friends and you can set your default publishing setting to be that. This isn't exposed anywhere, like some close friend list