Nick O’Neill of AllFacebook just pointed out that you can now separate all your Facebook friends out into groups. It can be used to send out mass messages and event invitations.
But….
I think they are missing the main point of segmenting your friends: privacy. In my mind, the whole reason for being able to put people into groups is so you can control what each group of people see. I want my real life friends to be able to see certain things, my co-workers to see another set of things, and professional contacts yet another. The only way Facebook will survive is if they realize that people’s lives are segmented… as much as we may not want to admit it, we all wear different hats dependent on those around us. And I don’t want my co-workers and family seeing the pictures from Saturday night.
I’m assuming the people at Facebook are planning on doing this eventually, but really, this should have been done before they launched this feature.
