Been reading all the comments at TechCrunch on Facebook To Launch Friend Grouping. Competition Can Suck. this Sunday afternoon.   Not withstanding "Fake Mark Zuckerberg" and  others who think Facebook is competing directly with the developers who develop applications for Facebook, I think having rungs of friendship is a good idea ..whoever is doing it..even if it's Facebook doing it and not some developer's application.

"…So Facebook will finally allow users to group friends and control information flow based on friend type. For guys like Robert Scoble, who have 5,000 friends (the limit), this may be a way to finally sort through the real friends from the fans. It’s a much needed feature that people have been requesting for a long time.

It also shows the steady maturity of Facebook from a college network to a full on world network, where friendships, business contacts, family and other types of relationships need to be more fully described. And this is also as much about privacy as it is about organization - users will be able to limit the information that certain friend groups receive."

I still have a problem with Facebook as a Social Network for exclusive things - I feel too much information is being thrown at me, all at once - and it's hard for me to decide what I really want to focus on.  In a way, that's Facebook's strength and weakness - it was designed for College Students and I don't think it really works as well when your not in college anymore - even though it's opened up to everyone now - they haven't really changed the basic way the social network works.

But Friendship and Social Networks and having rungs of friends, which I wrote about recently, is the right way to go.