Facebook is giving groups a little more prominence by testing ways to bring in messages from groups into the main stream on your News Feed. Up until now, group activity has remained segregated from the main feed. But some people on Facebook are now seeing messages posted to groups they belong to from their friends who also belong to the group. And group pages themselves now have their own Wall of messages from members.
This announcement comes at a time when Twitter is preparing to roll out its own group feature, which it calls Lists. Twitter is expected make the Lists feature available to everyone within a week or two.
By creating lists on Twitter, you are effectively dividing the stream into different groups of people. You can look at different groups or lists depending on what you are interested in. Facebook already has groups, but now is re-inserting relevant messages from those groups into the main stream.
Ultimately, that’s what you want: many little streams of information, feeding into one big one.
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ok..nice!
Too bad Facebook is still full of bugs. I’ve deleted the same email in my inbox 10 times and it keeps showing up as unread.
I wonder if Facebook will ever fix the problem.
Another main thing is facebook is bringing back “recent activity” to homepage. This focuses on what users doing over what users explicitly sharing. Shy users were completely left out in new facebook, only stories of loudshouters used to come to homepage.
I guess the News Feed will become even more unusable and cluttered with rubbish then?
Two different approaches. Personally I still see Twitter and Facebook as very different sites. I connect with people I know on FB and people I don’t on Twitter.
^^ this
Remember when groups used to be the cool thing on Facebook – like, way back in 2005? Adding this feature may make groups more relevant again, but it still seems to me that Fan Pages have pretty much made groups obsolete.
ok, come on, I think someone is spying on us at Blogtronix. We are testing this now with the new interactive activity streams. A month a go they also added the @follow to be part of the activity feed, again on the same day I was briefing Gartner analysts about it. What’s next, they also will introduce a social activity graphs, well, we announce that one first
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Anyone know whether this means that Group posting and commenting is now supported through the Facebook API? So far Groups haven’t been and we have only been able to integrate user accounts and Pages.
I couldn’t see my profile for a week. The site is bananas
Stream integration for Groups is an important step. But more important step would be letting groups to send notifications and allowing customization in groups.
Groups is one of the Facebook’s core applications but it is treated like a step child. Groupsplus seems as a better alternative for creating a group in Facebook, as it offers much more than regular groups.
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i just like Facebook. Facebook is really a social networking site. I’ve been waiting for the day the Facebook group will not remain silent. This is the time.
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And in order to introduce groups, are they removing friend lsits? coz i just noticed that all my friends have now come under one list (Other Friends).. the lists I created are now gone..
tht’s sick
It’s a good step, but what sucks is the “Fan page affiliation” step that Facebook has recently introduced.
I happen to be an admin of one the pages on Facebook, http://www.face.../connaughtplace,
which is a market place in Delhi, made in the Colonial time, and also one the most famous places in India. Since Govt. doesn’t have any PR firm or official website for it, I can not authenticate the page, hence I will lose the ability to publish anything on the page which includes no updates about the place!
This surely sucks!
Notice from FB ….to Fans of a World Famous destination in the capital of India – New Delhi with 28,000+ fans ….
Guys we need ur help, being the Page admins, [we too are just fans], we got a notice from Facebook today: You must confirm this Page’s affiliation with CP. Please take one of the following actions: 1. Link FB Page from official website. 2. Add a…n email to your account or another admin to your Page whose email add is officially affiliated with CP or a PR firm. Since we’re not affiliated with CP, WHAT DO WE DO ?
Dear Facebook,
I’m still waiting for some permission / group based features. I’d love to be able to setup my own groups / lists, then post / restrict / everything specially to those groups and those groups alone. I don’t necessarily want everything out there, as there are tons of people that I’m technically friends with that I really really don’t care about.
From a business perspective Facebook needs to pick one…. groups or pages… they are the new top level domain names… so pages are the .com and groups are the .orgs?