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Gerrit Eicker 04:46 on 14. September 2011 Permalink
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  Gerrit Eicker 04:52 on 14. September 2011 Permalink | Reply

  Facebook: “Lists have existed for several years, but you’ve told us how time-consuming it is to organize lists for different parts of your life and keep them up to date. – To make lists incredibly easy and even more useful, we’re announcing three improvements: Smart lists – You’ll see smart lists that create themselves and stay up-to-date based on profile info your friends have in common with you – like your work, school, family and city. Close Friends and Acquaintances lists – You can see your best friends’ photos and posts in one place, and see less from people you’re not as close to. Better suggestions – You can add the right friends to your lists without a lot of effort. – Friend Lists are completely optional. If you don’t like lists, you don’t have to use them.”

  RWW: “This update brings Facebook friend lists into direct competition with Google Plus Circles functionality. There are three specific improvements: smart lists, close friends and acquaintances lists and better friend suggestions. The way Facebook sees it, the more functionality that it can pack into the platform that parallels what Plus is doing, the more they can stem the tide against users leaving for Google’s social network. … As with just about everything that Facebook does, this might cause a bit of a user revolt. The popular refrain on the platform is ‘if it ain’t broke … .’ Yet, at the same time, users have been complaining about privacy and sharing and filters for years now. It is almost amazing that Facebook had to wait for serious competition from Google to really start instituting these types of changes.”

  IF: “The changes to Friend Lists, which will roll out soon, have the potential to bring on a new era of micro-sharing on Facebook if the site can learn how users want to apply them. To help it improve the feature and quiet claims that it doesn’t listen to its users, Facebook is encouraging people to leave feedback on a newly created ‘Facebook Lists Team’ Facebook Page.”

  TNW: “Reactions in the comments to the Facebook blog are mixed. While many people have noticed almost immediately the similarities to Google+, others aren’t very welcoming to the change. We’ll have to see how it all pans out, but Facebook’s newfound focus on privacy is welcome.”

  TC: “Today’s launch will doubtless draw some comparisons to Google+, which has a strong emphasis on sorting your friends into Circles, which are analogous to Facebook’s friend lists. But despite that emphasis, Facebook has actually beaten Google+ to the punch on recommending who you put into these groups – Google+ is great at surfacing people you might be interested in following, but it doesn’t yet do much to help you sort them.“