Facebook introduces automatic Friends List
The social network Facebook will in the coming days "auto lists" one. Here, lists with names of work colleagues, classmates or family members are automatically created based on the information that they have made on Facebook, it said in a statement. The novelties will be introduced from Wednesday and are expected to gradually reach the user as usual in the coming weeks.
Facebook's software chief Mike Schroepfer was expressly not connect to the Google offering was launched in the summer.Google + sorted from the start to his acquaintances in groups ("circles") one. "We are continuously developing the offer and have long been thinking about it," Schroepfer said on Tuesday the news agency dpa.
Facebook also leads a division in "Close friends" and "acquaintances" one. The background is that users now have many Facebook friends - and many wanted to share information only with their inner circle, said Schroepfer. The list of close friends, however, must be created by hand as usual.
By contrast, the four new attack "Smart Lists" on the details of Facebook friends back through their employer, school or affinities.Then be created by its own respective lists. In a further automatic list, only those friends who live within a certain radius. "This is handy if you want to arrange for example a cinema visit," said Schroepfer. In order for the "smart lists", but the user must carefully keep their personal information up to date.
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