When Facebook implemented smart friend lists, their editing controls moved — to the left-hand column of the homepage, along with the top right of your friends’ profiles.
Techie types would call that location “inline,” referring to the fact that the settings no longer reside in a single area.
If I had a dime for every person who complains about privacy on Facebook and doesn’t have any friend lists, I’d be rich. So anything Facebook could do to get more people to create friend lists seems like a win-win for all involved. Only five percent of the site’s membership actually uses this feature.
Now a Facebook spokesperson just told me via email, “we have nothing to announce,” after I asked for confirmation of whether the company is actually testing so-called smart lists.
The phrase smart lists shows up at the top of this new test feature appearing within the privacy settings and the area where you can post content for distribution in the news feed.
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