Facebook becomes a little more like the real world.

"Groups"

Facebook has been developing a feature for a few months that is supposed to help users organizes who sees what information they post. The new feature will be called "Groups". According to Mark Zuckerberg, "Groups" isn't the company's first attempt in allowing users to share information selectively. Only 5 percent of people have been using the "list" tool. Which was basically organizing friends in lists.

"Groups" should be more user friendly and increase the amount of people allowing to share information selectively. Essentially the idea of "Groups" is making a group and allowing to include others in it. So, someone could make a group for an organization at school and put every member in it. Thus, making the percentage of users sharing information selectively to go up.

Zuckerberg also explains that anyone who shouldn't really be in the group can easily be removed as well. When someone joins the group every member will be notified. Then any member could flag that person if they shouldn't be a member.

Augie Ray, an analyst with Forrester Research, called Groups “a big step forward to allow Facebook to reflect the same social norms that we have in the real world.”

I personally am really looking forward to this new feature. I see that it has a lot of potential in making my life easier. I can also seeing this being very beneficial to business, organizations, or any kind of function.