When Facebook Says - You Have Too Many Friends - NYTimes.com
Have you guys read this article?
What kind of rapport does a network of thousands of "friends" entail? Clearly, people may use FB for all sorts of purposes but I just can't see the one that would make "friending" a small army compelling. But even within smaller networks, I feel like adding a feature that would let one create different groups of contacts, say "college", "office", etc. wouldn't hurt. I know FB has this functionality of creating different lists of friends, but outside of very generic privacy settings (world, network and friends) it doesn't allow you to manage which groups of people can see which of your posts. I just don't understand why it's not there. I'm guessing if such a tool was implemented, FB could do a lot better in terms of keeping existing users away from smaller specialist networks that according to some could be FB's biggest threat.
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