As an Australian living in the US I've come to rely on facebook far more than I ever did when I was living back home. It really is the main way I keep in touch

As an Australian living in the US I've come to rely on facebook far more than I ever did when I was living back home. It really is the main way I keep in touch with my friends and family back home. I have a small circle of friends who I chat with on IRC every couple of days, but the time difference generally results in this being a "ships passing in the night" type catch up. My nuclear family I have probably monthly google video chats with. I swap emails with my Dad once a week or so. I check facebook daily and really feel like it has made it possible to still be part of my friends' lives. I have run into a bit of a niche use case issue recently though. My hobby is skydiving and facebook has become the way that I get access to photos and videos taken by my new "skydiving friends". So it is quite a regular scene that after jumping with a group of people for a day we'll all trade facebook details, add each other as friends and tag everyone in photos and videos. This is excellent.... except that these new found friends have access to all my facebook history unless I work out some way to manage the privacy features. I looked into this today and the "acquaintances" idea kind of fits... except this lowers the weight of these people's updates making it into my news feed, which isn't what I want. I'm really keen to see skydiving related posts from this group of people. I want to know the next time they're planning on a trip to the dropzone. I want to see their other skydiving photos. So I make a skydivers group and I can limit my old posts to not show up for these people. When I make new posts I can include them if it is skydiving related. But I'm relying on them doing the same. I can't see anyway that facebook makes it easy for me to filter their content. It seems all or nothing. Either I get all their updates or none.