Sure, there are some ways to group what people can see vs. what they can’t, but they’re painfully inefficient and hard to manage. Therefore, I agree with others above that have said it’s re-opening the niche for a college-only network and maybe for other segments of our lives as well.

Interesting post.

Enjoyed this piece, and am interested in your approach to the changes on Facebook. I’m writing a piece on how journalists deal with Facebook as a company and as a fixture in their daily lives. If you would be willing to answer a few questions for the piece I’d be deeply grateful! (Deadline is late Sunday, alas).

“Twitter is about infinite affinity circles. Facebook is not. By allowing a torrent of status updates into our Facebook pages, the company has destroyed what made it special: its ability to construct a constantly updated newspaper about us.” captures the true essence that I have felt has changed with the new update with Facebook.

I *don’t* need to now what is being updated in “real time” but I *do* want to immersed myself into my social graph about my friends’ lives, serendipitously and not have to be on Facebook all the time to constantly make sure that I am not missing what is going on in “real time,” which doesn’t really reflect reality, since in the real (not virtual world), one cannot parallel process what is going on with all of your friends all at once.

it’s fun