Comments on: Facebook now lets you create lists of friends for better social management http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/19/facebook-now-lets-you-create-lists-of-friends/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:11:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Significant new features coming from Facebook: More privacy, and chat » VentureBeat http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/19/facebook-now-lets-you-create-lists-of-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-799283 Significant new features coming from Facebook: More privacy, and chat » VentureBeat Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:32:33 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/19/facebook-now-lets-you-create-lists-of-friends/#comment-799283 [...] new privacy features are built around the concept of the friends list that Facebook began testing last December, where you can sort friends into lists that you manually create. Now, you’ll be able to use [...] [...] new privacy features are built around the concept of the friends list that Facebook began testing last December, where you can sort friends into lists that you manually create. Now, you’ll be able to use [...]

]]> By: VentureBeat » Coming soon? Facebook translation, message blasts, and more privacy controls http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/19/facebook-now-lets-you-create-lists-of-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-725538 VentureBeat » Coming soon? Facebook translation, message blasts, and more privacy controls Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:29:33 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/19/facebook-now-lets-you-create-lists-of-friends/#comment-725538 [...] add privacy controls to its “friends lists” feature, that it introduced last month (our coverage here). Basically, the feature lets you manually create lists of friends, then see things like activity [...] [...] add privacy controls to its “friends lists” feature, that it introduced last month (our coverage here). Basically, the feature lets you manually create lists of friends, then see things like activity [...]

]]> By: Derek http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/19/facebook-now-lets-you-create-lists-of-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-689264 Derek Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:34:38 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/19/facebook-now-lets-you-create-lists-of-friends/#comment-689264 For a company which claims to be in the business of social graphing they really are demonstrating a lot of ignorance in their field. The idea that you can build simple friend taxonomies and put your friends into buckets is over simplifying relationships - people are connected in many way. (Some of my contact at work I went to school with, some I hang out on the weekends with. These categories problematically overlap.) While tags would be a good start this still would be offloading the burden of mapping relationships onto the users. The fact is that there are effective ways of automating the tagging and sorting of contacts into relationship sets. Facebook should do this or prepare to feel some hurt when a company which does comes along. For a company which claims to be in the business of social graphing they really are demonstrating a lot of ignorance in their field.

The idea that you can build simple friend taxonomies and put your friends into buckets is over simplifying relationships – people are connected in many way. (Some of my contact at work I went to school with, some I hang out on the weekends with. These categories problematically overlap.)

While tags would be a good start this still would be offloading the burden of mapping relationships onto the users. The fact is that there are effective ways of automating the tagging and sorting of contacts into relationship sets. Facebook should do this or prepare to feel some hurt when a company which does comes along.

]]> By: Grinch http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/19/facebook-now-lets-you-create-lists-of-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-687220 Grinch Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:47:10 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/19/facebook-now-lets-you-create-lists-of-friends/#comment-687220 is every little feature facebook adds worthy of a story? is every little feature facebook adds worthy of a story?

]]> By: Facebook Lets Users Link-In Contacts by Groups-- bub.blicio.us http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/19/facebook-now-lets-you-create-lists-of-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-685918 Facebook Lets Users Link-In Contacts by Groups-- bub.blicio.us Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:15:08 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/19/facebook-now-lets-you-create-lists-of-friends/#comment-685918 [...] More at InisdeFacebook and VentureBeat. [...] [...] More at InisdeFacebook and VentureBeat. [...]

]]> By: Nathan http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/19/facebook-now-lets-you-create-lists-of-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-685778 Nathan Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:45:12 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/19/facebook-now-lets-you-create-lists-of-friends/#comment-685778 If you want further flexibility in associating tags or information with your friends for filtering or organization purposes, you should check out my app, Rolodexterous. Think Excel meets Facebook! Try it out: http://apps.facebook.com/rolodexterous/ If you want further flexibility in associating tags or information with your friends for filtering or organization purposes, you should check out my app, Rolodexterous. Think Excel meets Facebook!

Try it out:
http://apps.facebook.com/rolodexterous/

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