A few weeks back I noticed a little snippet on the Facebook “What’s New” page that caught my attention. My one complaint about Facebook had been that it didn’t give you enough control over what people see about you. It is not easy to turn down a friend request from a work mate (or boss), but I’m not sure I want that work mate seeing all my goofy personal moments either. I have also made some contacts via this site with people that I may not know that well (they are probably not stalkers … but who knows). There have been several stories in the news over the last few month about wrecklessly posting on Facebook getting people in trouble. I’m concerned about getting into trouble, but I’d prefer to let real friends/family see different things than my work friends or business colleagues and the limited profile has just been too limited. So here is what go me all excited:

Sort out your friends.
We’ll let you organize that long list of friends into groups so you can decide more specifically who sees what.

Exactly what I wanted/needed.

Well Facebook launched the first phase of this project today. You can now create groups of friends (that eliminates at least one app I have installed) and message or see updates based on those groups. The Friends page has been completely redesigned to accommodate this shift. I can’t wait to start building different profiles based on different groups. Watch out Linked-In, myFamily, Ning, etc. it looks like Facebook is getting serious about being your only solution for social networking.

Go friend me now … I promise not to put you in the stalker group.

Read: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=7831767130

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