Facebook New Smart Lists : An inside look

Previously I had shared the blog post from the Facebook about the Facebooks new improved lists, Now i am going to give more inside look of this feature from my experience on  it.


It starts from Here:

Facebook Says,List are easy,optional way to:

• See more in News feed from your close friends
• Keep your different life in a separate. 
• Share your posts with just the right people.

The three main division of you lists will be :

• Close friends: Your best friends, who show up more in news feed.
• Acquaintances: Friends who should show up less less in news feed.
• Restricted: friends who can only see posts and pfofile info you make public.

Apart from the three basic you will have Smart lists that update automatically based on your friends profiles to save your time . In the above screenshot you can see that there are a Smart Lists based on my profile information on Facebook , like where  i work at ie Jasmeetishere.blogspot.com, the school where i studied, the location where i am currently living and some more based upon the profile on Facebook.

Now lets have a closer look what does thses actually mean to us, viz. if u want to share your updates with a particular set of people then you can easily do that by use of these lists. It will help you to share with just the right people,you will have a better control over your privacy by using this list see the screen shot below.

Accessing these lists is very simple. They are placed on the left sidebar of your Facebook homepage. With this you will have a quick access to the updates and photos of the friend who you care about the most while skiping the updates from acquaintances you dont know well.

                   Adding friends to list is very simple. Just Go to the specific list from the left sidebar and then type the name of the friend to whom you want to add your can simply choose from the list of auto-suggestions.

                                    Adding friends to smart list also follows the same procedure but there is little additional dialog box for this that says "When you add a friend to a smart list , we'll suggest that they update their profile , friend will receive a suggestion to do that update which he/she can choose to accept or ignore it. 

"In both the cases [i.e Simple lists or smart lists] The Facebook will never tell your when you add them to close friends, acquaintances or other regular(non-smart) list. "

Hope this post had help to have an inside look and hand on experience of Facebook improved list for friends.Do share your views about the Facebook lists in comments.

Facebook Introduced Improved Friend Lists-- Is it Google+'s Circles ?

Facebook now came up with the new Improved List friend list.Want to see posts from your closest friends? Or perhaps you'd like to share a personal story with your family—without also telling all your co-workers. With improved Friend Lists, you can easily see updates from and share with different lists of friends.

To make lists incredibly easy and even more useful, Facebook now made three improvements:

• Smart lists - You'll see smart lists that create themselves and stay up-to-date based on profile info your friends have in common with you--like your work, school, family and city.
• Close Friends and Acquaintances lists - You can see your best friends' photos and posts in one place, and see less from people you're not as close to.
• Better suggestions - You can add the right friends to your lists without a lot of effort.

Facebook Improved Lists

Smart Lists
Managing lists is boring. That's why smart lists do the work for you. To start, we'll offer you smart lists for:

• Work
• School
• Family
• City

For instance, if you list Boston College as a school you've attended and your friends John and Sarah do too, then you would instantly have a smart list called "Boston College" with John and Sarah on it. This means that if you're having a grad party or a college reunion, you can easily share photos with just your college friends, without bothering other people you know.

You can also add or remove friends manually to make the lists even more accurate.

Close Friends and Acquaintances Lists

• Close Friends list - Add your best friends to your Close Friends list and you'll see everything they post in News Feed. You can even jump straight to a view of your News Feed that only shows their photos and news. You can also receive notifications when they post updates, so you don't miss anything important.
• Acquaintances list - Add friends like old classmates or business contacts to your Acquaintances list and you'll see less of them in your News Feed. We'll still show you important things they post -- like when they get married or move to a new city -- so you don't lose touch completely.

Okay, what about your boss or the few other people you like but just don't want to share with on Facebook?

You can add these folks to your Restricted list and they will only see your Public posts. You'll still be friends on Facebook so you can send them messages or tag them in a post if you want to connect to them from time to time. It's totally up to you.

Unlike your smart lists for your work, school, family and city, we don't create Close Friends and Acquaintances lists for you. Since these types of relationships are unique, it's important for you to decide who goes in your Close Friends, Acquaintances or Restricted lists -- if you use them at all.

If you created your own lists in the past, you can still use them. You can also continue to create whatever lists you want in the future. When you post something to a list that you've created -- including your Close Friends and Acquaintances lists -- no one will be able to see the title of the list.

The people on the list you've shared with will be able to see each others' names. This gives them more context. For example, if I see that a post is shared with my five closest friends, I am much more likely to comment freely on it than I would be if I didn't know who else could see the post.

Better Suggestions
Facebook provide suggestions for your smart lists, Close Friends, Acquaintances, and your own lists, making them easier to create and update.

When you add someone as a friend or confirm a friendship request, you'll be able to add the friend to any of your existing lists.

See and Share With Exactly Who You Want
Each of your lists has its own News Feed, where you can see just the photos, status updates and other posts from the people on the list. To view list News Feeds, look for the Lists section on the left side of your homepage and click the list you want to see.

Whenever you feel like sharing something with a narrower set of friends, simply use the dropdown audience selector in the sharing tool and pick one of your lists.

You can also use lists to help control who sees what on your profile, using the audience selector next to each detail on your profile.
[Source: Facebook Blog]
Improved Friend lists will be available to everyone this week.This feature of improved friend lists looks to me  the effect of Google+ circles Concept.
 What do you think about this new Facebook's Improved friend lists . Do Comment