Facebook seems to know a lot more about you than you thought, and they are ready to share.
Smart Lists, Facebook’s new content sharing News Feed roll out, will automatically categorize your friends into 3 standard groups: People you work with, People you went to school with, and People within 50 miles of your city. Smart Lists will go along with their existing Friends Lists grouping feature…Oh really, you don’t know what that is? Not surprised since practically no one even uses it (less than 5% of all Facebook users).
This new Lists feature will have two ways for you to share/control content:
1. Status Updates: When you are about to post an update, you can control who will (or not) be able to see your status. Next to the ‘Post’ button, there is a drop down box that allows you to specify your intended audience.
2. News Feed: Once you create your designated list, you can narrow your feed updates to that group(s?) of people.
Facebook’s guide to the new feature states,“Feed filters make it easy to see a selected set of friend’s updates in one place and share exclusive with them.”
Hmm…looks kind of like Google + Circles doesn’t it? Well…because it is. Let’s be serious, it’s Facebook. It’s their job to take someone’s idea and make it even better. But will this auto-grouping feature be a Facebook win…or fail?
