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Facebook Friend Lists let you manage your “friends” more effectively
December 19th, 2007
| By Justin Smith | 29 Comments » |
This morning Facebook launched a new “Friend Lists” feature that will make the problem of organizing your hundreds of Facebook friends a little easier.
Facebook wants their “social graph” (your friend list) to represent the real-world as accurately as possible. However, previously there had been no robust way to distinguish between your best friend and someone you just met at a conference (except for listing “how you know this person”). While this is a complex problem, users are clamoring for more efficient ways to set different boundaries with different types of “friends.”
Currently, Friend Lists lets you 1) organize people into lists (but only for the sake of your own management – these lists don’t show up anywhere on your profile page), and 2) bulk message everyone on a Friend List easily. As I speculated when hints of this feature first showed up back in August, I would expect Facebook to add privacy controls to Friend Lists as well. This is a major challenge, but helping users organize their Friend Lists over time will make Facebook more usable to those with hundreds or thousands of Facebook friends every day.
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December 19th, 2007 at 11:18 am
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December 19th, 2007 at 11:42 am
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December 19th, 2007 at 11:47 am
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December 19th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
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December 19th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
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/
December 19th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
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December 19th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
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December 19th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
I wish we had the option to set it back the way it was, though … I don’t have hundreds of friends on there, and I liked the display the was I was used to, the way it was.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
[...] Finally, you’re now able to group and classify your friends on Facebook through a new feature Friend Lists. [...]
December 21st, 2007 at 12:06 am
[...] Facebook Friend Lists Finally, you’re now able to group and classify your friends on Facebook through a new feature Friend Lists. [...]
December 26th, 2007 at 8:08 am
the new functinality sucks. You used to be able to see on one page a list of friends and what the relationship of each person was (ie went to college, random stories etc). Now the only way to do this is to right click on an individual person using the symbol next to them. You have to do this person by person, and have no way of knowing if there is any extra information available or not.
It basically means that nobody is ever going to see the detailed relationship info that people leave when adding a friend.
December 28th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Seems like a cool feature.
January 4th, 2008 at 3:56 am
Is there something that I need to install for this new feature? I no longer able to view my friends, it’s like the page stop loading. I don’t encounter this problem when using Firefox. My friends get listed.
January 8th, 2008 at 11:39 am
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January 10th, 2008 at 12:47 am
[...] weeks ago, Facebook took the first step toward enabling more efficient friend management with the release of Friend Lists. However, as was noted at the time, the killer feature of Friend Lists — Privacy Controls [...]
January 11th, 2008 at 3:47 am
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June 9th, 2008 at 10:56 am
About the friend lists… If you have hundreds of friends and want to be able to make a list of each 20 lets say or 15, the only way to keep track that you aren’t doubling up is by selecting a page of friends in Alphabetical order OR page specific-BUT this poses a problem when you are constantly adding new friends, because new people will appear in the alphabetical order and not in the order they were added. A great tweak to the friend list, would be to have the option to make additional lists of ONLY new friends. Otherwise, one has to constanly create new lists if they are an active friend adder… anyone know a solution to this problem?
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:43 am
As you rightly alluded to this is next to useless without privacy controls – what you want is to have certain privacy settings for some groups that differ from others.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
[...] Groups, and Events. Or, you can pick a specific Friends List (You are organizing your friends into Friends lists, right?) and filter by only those friends within a particular list. This makes sorting through all [...]
October 6th, 2008 at 12:51 am
[...] meant to reduce the burden of those who have lists of hundreds or even thousands of countacts. As justin Smiths of Inside Facebook does, I also expect this feature to eventually evolve in improved privacy [...]
October 6th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
[...] meant to reduce the burden of those who have lists of hundreds or even thousands of countacts. As justin Smiths of Inside Facebook does, I also expect this feature to eventually evolve in improved privacy [...]
November 11th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Hi There,
Can anybody please help me out with the formatting of friendlist in facebook?
I am developing facebook application using VS.Net and C#.
I am able to get the friendlist with their images, but the formatting is not as per my desire. I want them in horizontal order, with paging enabled, and want to select multiple friends at the same time.
Please any one if you know about this, take out some time and reply. I need it desperately.
Thanks,
Gauri
January 9th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
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March 25th, 2009 at 10:27 am
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December 15th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
How can I set that hidden my friends lists ?
December 15th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Facebook How to Hidden My Friends List ?
December 15th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
How can I hide my friend list from my friends in Facebook ?
February 5th, 2010 at 11:48 am
how to make friend list?