Facebook Adds Friends Lists Filters to Chat

[engine]

Facebook Adds Friends Lists Filters to Chat [blog.facebook.com]

Since we launched Facebook Chat, many of you have asked for ways to organize your connections and to control which friends see you online. Maybe you want to be online with your best friends but offline with your work colleagues. You can now do that by using Friend Lists to filter your connections in Chat.Friend Lists let you group friends to more easily share with and view information from specific sets of people. You already can use them to filter your home page, send Inbox messages and manage privacy settings.

[rogerd]

Adding granularity to sharing on Facebook in increasingly important as now it's almost mandatory to connect with family, school friends, business contacts, etc.