Facebook Copies Google+ With New Feature
You know what's cool about Google+? They have circles that lets you put your friends, families, co-workers, and associates into particular categories so that you can choose who you want to see on your homepage.
Guess what? Facebook is doing is doing the same thing. Except, instead of circles, Facebook labels the new feature with "lists."
And what's worse is that your friends can actually SEE which categories you put them in, which means you're probably going to create quite a few enemies. In fact, the lists even show up on your FB profile.
WTF?! SO not cool, Facebook! The whole point of creating all these new privacy features is so that we can HIDE info from our FB friends, not SHOW them more. UGH!
Luckily, you can turn this feature off, but ONLY by following a few steps on an area of their Help page, which most users may not even know about.
Get it together, Facebook. You aren't making your users too happy.
UPDATE: Reps from Facebook have revealed to us that "Friend Lists will not appear on your profile page. We are discontinuing that feature with this launch."
Tags: circles, facebook, feature, google plus, lists, privacy
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I thought FB was already doing this. I check my "lists" all the time? Maybe I'm missing something?
lists have been around since before google+ even existed…
umm im pretty sure FB didnt copy anything, that list feature has been around for a long time.
Huh? You just discovered this, Perez? By the way, the list does not automatically show up on your profile unless of course you change your settings. My lists are still hidden. Nothing has changed, this isn't news.
Yeah this has been around for a while, because my step sister has had her "besties" catagory for quite a while now. And I know the family section has been up for a long time too.
Wow…FB is pulling a lady gaga and copying.
If you don't want certain people to see things on your page, why are you FB friends with them?!
Dude lists of friends on FB have been available since forever. It was actually when I first saw Google+ that I thought "what's the difference with FB?".
I have different groups (lists, circles, etc.) of friends on FB and they are allowed to see different things.
Enough saying crap about FB's privacy settings, they've always been there and they've never been that hard to figure out.
Ha!! You think this is new!! Hahahaa. Isn't Google+ pretty much DOA anyway?