Facebook has "circles" but they are called "groups."
I think Friend Lists is what you may be referring to.
They need to make the feature easier to use/find, and they need to make the News Feed more sensitive to these.
I think Friend Lists is what you may be referring to.
They need to make the feature easier to use/find, and they need to make the News Feed more sensitive to these.
Given that, Friends Lists aren't especially hidden either. Account > Edit Friends > Add a list. But using them for privacy is hard: you need to select custom privacy, then say show to specific people, then type in the friend list name in a box that looks like it only expects a person's name. Kludgy. (The iPhone app is actually much better here: it just includes the friends lists in the privacy dropdown.)
"Tonight at a Facebook Developer’s Garage meeting at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Zuckerberg fielded a question about the service’s privacy controls. He said that the ideal solution for sharing different things with different people is to make a friend list. “But guess what? Nobody wants to make lists,” Zuckerberg admitted."
I absolutely love Circles, and it's more or less what I always wanted Facebook lists to be.