Facebook improved friend lists

Facebook is really trying hard to encounter its new competitor Google+; the new social networking site released by Google in late June. As a part of this encounter Facebook is planning to release their improved friend lists this week. With these improved Friend Lists, you can easily see updates from and share with different lists of friends.

Facebook in its blog post says to make lists incredibly easy and even more useful, we're announcing three improvements:

Smart lists - You'll see smart lists that create themselves and stay up-to-date based on profile info your friends have in common with you--like your work, school, family and city.

For instance, if you list Boston College as a school you've attended and your friends John and Sarah do too, then you would instantly have a smart list called "Boston College" with John and Sarah on it. This means that if you're having a grad party or a college reunion, you can easily share photos with just your college friends, without bothering other people you know. You can also add or remove friends manually to make the lists even more accurate.

Close Friends and Acquaintances lists - You can see your best friends' photos and posts in one place, and see less from people you're not as close to.

Better suggestions - You can add the right friends to your lists without a lot of effort.

When you add someone as a friend or confirm a friendship request, you'll be able to add the friend to any of your existing lists.

See and Share With Exactly Who You Want

Each of your lists has its own News Feed, where you can see just the photos, status updates and other posts from the people on the list. To view list News Feeds, look for the Lists section on the left side of your homepage and click the list you want to see. Whenever you feel like sharing something with a narrower set of friends, simply use the dropdown audience selector in the sharing tool and pick one of your lists.

You can also use lists to help control who sees what on your profile, using the audience selector next to each detail on your profile.