Facebook Relationships
I’m frustrated with how Facebook handles relationships. Set aside for a moment that I think it’s inferior to a blog for social networking. If I was to entrust my social network to Facebook, I’d have a hard time to keep track of all the different types of interrelationships.
We all have family, friends, associates, co-workers, employers, vendors, suppliers, and so on that we deal with on a daily or weekly basis. Why can’t we classify our "friends" according to type of relationship? There should be more choices, like following relationship types: family, friends, followers, & associates.
Doing this would allow us to organize contacts to be more aligned with groups, apps, and sort out what each type of "friend" could access. I’m one of those people who want’s all contacts to "see" everything I do on Facebook - but I would still like to be able to sort my contacts by type.
This is one area that Facebook and the rest of social network services will have a hard time to provide PIM functionality that many people still use. That’s my $.02 - what do you think? What other types of relationships could be included?
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Comment by Dave Huston Personally, I always hate the process of categorizing my contacts. I enjoy the simplicity that Facebook affords. If I install a new app and want to invite some contacts to join me, I simply go through and select which contacts I want to share the app with, usually with a maximum of 20. I usually only have a few contacts in mind that I want to communicate with the most, so this process goes pretty quickly for me.
IMHO: facebook works fine for just dumping all your relationships and connections into, without any need to sort them. To me facebook is a place to manage personal communication. I’m still going to use linkedin to manage my professional network, ning.com sites to manage personal-interest networks, and my own blog to manage the 1st degree.