Facebook has introduced the long-awaited fine-grained privacy controls.  Now, if I can find it under "customize" I can share various parts of my profile information with my friends of friends.  If only my life was so interesting that I needed to hide things from the general public, or at least those members of the general public who aren't in the "network" defined by the part of the country in which I live.

Now we'll see if people really use this stuff.

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[Mark Waks]

Heh. Yeah, given the lessons learned at Zingdom, I'll be very curious to see how much the privacy controls get used. OTOH, I'm getting the impression that people are finally beginning to get the idea that privacy might matter, so it's possible that Facebook's timing is simply good.

Personally, I love the fact that FB has gotten the friend list religion. It was a feature I needed for CommYou anyway, and now I don't have to be in the business of managing those lists -- I can simply use the ones provided by Facebook. (Although I don't know whether I'm going to adopt the friends-of-friends thing any time soon. It's interesting, but probably a pain to implement efficiently.)

The feature I'm *really* excited about, though, is Chat. I'm already encouraging them (in my own little tiny way) to open that up to Bots. If they can do that in a controlled fashion, it'll be fabulous for apps like mine, where real-time notification has major user value...