New way to organize Facebook friends

Facebook today launched it new application ‘Facebook Groups’ which will allow 500 million users of Facebook to assemble their friends on the basis of significance, common interest, activity, or theme.

According to the Facebook Blog, ‘Facebook Groups’ has made it convenient for its members to construct independent sections for the important faction of people in your life such as your family, best friends, just friends, football tem, your book club etc.

Information and messages posted by a group member will be visible to the rest of the group members and to make users feel more protected and confident information posted in the new groups can only be visible to group members by default. It also enables the group members to engage in a gropu chat, which according to the Facebook Blog was a feature time and again requested by its members.

The emails sent are converted into posts in the groups and by setting up an email adress group members are able to stay connected with each other even when they are not using Facebook. According to the Facebook Blog confidentiality and privacy of the user is valued the most.

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