Most of the time when something changes on Facebook, there’s a good ten minutes of complete confusion followed by a flood of statuses read something like “OMGGG What happened?”. So, we’re especially happy to give a heads up on this one.
Coming soon will be “smart lists”, the feature that will automatically sort your Facebook friends into lists with your news feed changing based on whatever list you choose to see. The automatic sorts will package your friends together based on things like high school friends, college mates, and so on, plus you can add or remove anyone from any group as well as customize your own lists.
Sounds confusing? It may be, but we’re sure it’s no more confusing than any other FB change that has happened in the past.
Apparently, there’s been a “sorting friends” feature for a while now, but few users actually use it, and this is the first to do the news feed thing. Beyond making it convenient for you to read news from specific people, it’s also intended for better privacy, letting you monitor what posts are viewed by which friends.
The whole thing may be a response to Google+’s “circles” feature, which is basically the same thing as the smart list, just one’s called a list and one’s called a circle.
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