Facebook is trying to become a bit more like the real world.The company on Wednesday introduced a feature that allows users to interact with small groups of people, like their family, high school friends or colleagues.The move is an effort to address a longstanding problem: Facebook friends often span a broad range of relationships that include relatives, classmates, casual professional acquaintances or jogging partners — and not everyone wants all of them to see his or her information.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/technology/07facebook.htmlAlso see:Facebook unveils ‘groups’ feature and user controls
Facebook has introduced a raft of features aimed at giving users more control over their personal data.A groups feature will allow users to specify circles of friends with whom they want to share different data.
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