One of the most difficult parts about using Facebook is knowing exactly who is going to see the things that you post on your profile. It’s not the most user-friendly experience, but luckily we now have an app for that.
Friend Manager comes via former Blip.tv CEO and current Facebook Product Manager Mike Hudack and lets you drag and drop friends into three different buckets; Regular Friends, Close Friends, and Acquitances. By using the app, you’ll now have a better grasp on how to use the friends list feature on Facebook.
In the same way that Google+ has made “privacy” an afterthought with its Circles premise, Facebook friend lists hope to do the same thing. Until now, I’ve found them to be confusing but Friend Manager makes it clearer. While Hudack works at Facebook, this is an unofficial app.
As soon as you get started, all of your friends are loaded into the “Regular Friends” or “Close Friends” bucket. The latter is automatically generated by Facebook based on your usage.
Once you start dragging and dropping friends, you’ll notice the addition of the new “Acquintances” category as an option under friends when you go to update your status:
This is definitely a visual approach that Facebook should embrace and integrate as part of its friends list functionality. The ease of sliding people in and out of Circles has made it easy to onboard new Google+ users, and an approach like this does the same thing.
it's not working >"<
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LikeTypo alert: Acquitances.
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LikeMike Hudack, if you're reading this, hit me up and I'll paypal you a beer. Thanks for this!
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To better prepare people for the transition to G+?
I actually do, until facebook change the way chat box works!! now my list are gone!! but still I moved my friends to a list upon accepting their friend request.
Yep, I've got all my outdoor-related pages in one list so I can scroll through just that feed.
i use them and dont see the benefit in the app you described
use lists to set privacy
Nope
NO!
Yes, I've been using them since the beginning. Google+ "Circles" was nothing new. In fact, they're inferior to FB lists.
sure
'One of the most difficult parts about using Facebook is knowing exactly who is going to see the things....' - really? How is 'share with' hard to understand?
all the time ... It's the most useful feature I would say.
So it's kind of like placing your friends into 'circles' of a sort. How novel.
I used to but they changed how they worked at some point and I was no longer able to use them how I'd been using them
YES, I do.
Yes. I have a lot of friends from differenet countries, not speaking their respective languages. Friend Lists allow me calibrating the content and preventing people from seeing what they don't understand.