Facebook responds to G+ functionality
Great post highlighting how Facebook’s new smart lists are actually quite good, and (according to the original author) more useful than G+ circles.
I’ve yet to play with smart lists on Facebook, but would be interested in your thoughts?
Originally shared by Craig Kanalley
FACEBOOK SMART LISTS
Just got “Smart Lists.” They were all right on and so were the suggestions to add to each list. They encouraged me to create new categories and after I populated each with 5-10 people, the suggestions again were right on and these lists took hardly any time at all to create.
The best part is you can add people you “subscribe” to on Facebook to any of these lists — so you don’t have to be friends with them! This is a major change for Facebook and it makes things so much more fun.
Now I have news streams which are frankly more interesting than on Google+, and more personal. The familiar faces and even my news feed with prominent brands from tech to general news make each list worthwhile visiting in my FB News Feed.
I can’t say the same for my 25+ Google+ circles. These streams are more hit-or-miss. The content can be all over the place.
Look, I still like Google+, especially the strong community here, smart people and intelligent threads. And Hangouts are always fun. But I really believe Facebook squashed a major opportunity for Google to convert mainstream users to circles with the introduction of smart lists, subscriptions and targeted sharing based on these. Google+ will need a lot more to acquire users.
This leads to my final point: Lots of smart people here as I said, but the people I know best, connect with most.. they’re not here. They’re on Facebook.
This goes along with my post on how Facebook just made the social networking battle a lot more difficult for Google: http://goo.gl/87AUt Whether you like Facebook or not, you have to admit their service just got a lot better.
