I started using facebook seriously exactly a year back. Before that I had an account with them, but never felt the need to check it regularly and my friend list was sporadic. I had an orkut account as well, that I used most prolifically to post pictures and share opinions with friends.
Now after about a year, I am very comfortable with facebook, and my regular day begins with checking facebook pages along side checking emails, to know what is happening in my network. Well, it is good to be informed about happenings in your friends/acquaintances life , but the one thing that is a put off with facebook is lack of privacy. Suppose say you have 50 friends and you can easily classify them as family, school friends, work friends1, work friends2 ... local friends and others. Now, when you want to share something on facebook, at the first sight may be somebody is tempted to respond to your post who belongs to the first group. Now, it is very unlikely that a member from the second group is ever going to comment on that post unless it is something very universal. In other words, people generally feel very comfortable to comment when the earlier commentator is known to them or they all belong to the same group.
So, I think it will be way more useful, if facebook has options on grouping people and allowing users to post comments that will be only visible to a particular group. I guess in that case, all will be comfortable and there will be no breach of privacy issues. Just my 2 cents. Hope facebook developers are listening..
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