A Facebook for All Seasons: Skinning the SocialNetwork

Facebook has ‘groups’ in the works:

[from Facebook | What’s New]

In the Works

Sort out your friends.

We’ll let you organize that long list of friends into groups so you can decide more specifically who sees what.

Please don’t do this the wrong way: subdividing into discrete collections, where someone is either a Work friend or a Play friend, but can’t be both. Those are ‘Groups’.

What we want is ‘Groupings” where we can tag our friends with as many associations as we like, such as ‘work’, ‘play’, ‘bowling league’, and ‘san francisco’. That way we can share things in the most flexible ways possible.