New Delhi: Facebook will now automatically group your friends based on whether they live near you, went to your school or work with you. You can read posts or share updates with specific groups instead of dozens, or hundreds, of "friends" at a time.
Facebook will use the colleges, workplaces and geographic locations that users share on the site to organise people into groups. Dubbed "smart lists," the feature is optional to use, and the lists are customisable.
For instance, if a user lists its workplace on his profile, smart lists will create a group with the same name(name of the company) and will automatically find all friends, who belong to the same network, and group them together for easy sharing of content between them. "Users don't really want to spend a lot of time creating and maintaining friend lists," said Naomi Gleit, the director of product at Facebook who worked on the feature.
In addition, you can create your own friend groups with as few or as many as you would like, based around hobbies, work projects or relatives, for example.
Listing people as "close friends," meanwhile, will ensure that you will see the posts and photos from the dozen or so friends you care about the most. Updates from these people will feature more prominently in your news feed and you can opt to receive email notifications every time they post something on Facebook, Gleit said.
Conversely, those categorised as "acquaintances" will feature less prominently on your Facebook page, and you will see just big news, such as marriages and new babies.
The last few new Facebook features were obviously inspired by Twitter, but this time around the world's largest social networking service takes a page from its new rival - Google+.
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