Re:Facebook Revamps Friend Lists
by eitally on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @02:41PM
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It's only going to take a few instances of the algorithm guessing wrong or users not paying attention and having something bad happen IRL before this bites them. At least with Plus it's still a manual association into Circles, which puts the full onus on the user to do it carefully.
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The only lists that are automatically maintained are those for your schoolmates, your work colleagues, where you live, and your family.
The family one is the one where the most sensitive information might be shared, and that requires a confirmation for one of your friends to claim to be in your family. (Or, you can manually add that friend as a member of your Family list, which won't add you as a member of their Family list.)
That makes more sense but I do question the colleagues list, since a lot of people carefully sort which coworkers they fraternize with and prefer multiple lists, especially at large companies.