New York (ap)-this is a modern dilemma: do you really want your Facebook friends see your wild party photos, wearing the rabbit ears. But you aren't so keen to it to explain your mother-in-law.
So, Facebook is designed to make life easier.
Starts on Wednesday, social network will make it easier to share the smaller, isolated groups of people's photos, post and link. Although the site allows users into list since 2007, their friends, the options for quite a lot of work, only a small part of the Facebook users use of it.
Now, Facebook will be set on the basis of your friends if they live near you, go to your school or work with you. You can read and specific group, not tens or hundreds of "friends" at the same time, position or sharing update. Facebook will on the web site of the use of the user sharing university, workplace and geographical location, the organization of points. So-called "smart list" function is optional use, the list is customizable.
"Users don't really want to spend a lot of time to create and maintain friends list, said:" Naomi Gleit, product function on Facebook. The directors of work
In addition, you can run out less or as many as you may want to create your own friends, hobbies, work or relatives around the project, for example.
For "close friends," the person listed, and at the same time, will ensure that you will see you care most position, from ten few friends photo. From these people update will be in your news feed and function more prominent, you can choose to receive an email notification every time they posted on Facebook, Gleit said things on.
Conversely, classified as "an acquaintance of the function is not quite outstanding" your Facebook page, you will see such as marriage and newborn babies, but the big news.
The latest move, need to Facebook from Google add pages, at the beginning of the social network launched this summer in the Internet search leader. Google's service so far there are no threat to unsaddle FACEBOOK as the world's largest online social network. But its exquisite design and innovation, focus on the function of the privacy, caused many Facebook users and the critic's interest, help to promote the silicon valley of the benign competition between neighbors.
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