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VentureBeat: Facebook now lets you create lists of friends for better social management

  • Nathan · 2 years ago
    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/
  • Grinch · 2 years ago
    is every little feature facebook adds worthy of a story?
  • Derek · 2 years ago
    For a company which claims to be in the business of social graphing they really are demonstrating a lot of ignorance in their field.

    The idea that you can build simple friend taxonomies and put your friends into buckets is over simplifying relationships - people are connected in many way. (Some of my contact at work I went to school with, some I hang out on the weekends with. These categories problematically overlap.)

    While tags would be a good start this still would be offloading the burden of mapping relationships onto the users. The fact is that there are effective ways of automating the tagging and sorting of contacts into relationship sets. Facebook should do this or prepare to feel some hurt when a company which does comes along.