Facebook Embraces Groups

Nick O’Neill has a post over at allfacebook about Facebooks announcement of the ability to create and maintain groups of your friends. He has labeled it the “LinkedIn Killer”

I for one am happy to see this. I have written a couple of posts recently, one about which service gives a better return on our investment and another on how we could improve Twitter . One argument I had in choosing Twitter over Facebook was the fact that Facebook was a little too spread out. I have to go to a lot of places to get a little done. And my one holiday wish for Twitter was groups. I think Facebook has take a step in the right direction. Having different groups that you can send messages to independently is a great feature. You could combine different Facebook groups into a particular group you define and have the ability to message the entire lot of them. Nick also had a great point about business contacts, or for that matter any group you want to pool together.

Our time these days is so torn between all these outlets, we have little time to address individual messages and send them out. I would LOVE to see this feature in Twitter and think it would be a killer feature for their platform, but in the mean time good on Facebook for this “small” yet significant step to a better social platform.