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Have you ever clicked the little padlock next to the Share input widget? You can choose between Everyone, Friends of Friends, Friends only, or Customize. If you choose the last one, you can select groups of friends or individual friends, or everyone except a list of excluded friends. Facebook has gotten pretty complicated...

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Yes. I saw that. It doesn't work all that well.

One of the comments I saw on Google+ is making a distinction between a "plaza" and a "warren". Facebook defaults to plaza though it can do warren with some contortion. Likewise, Google+ defaults to warren and can do plaza with some contortion.

With my wide-ranging interests and extremely, sometimes mutually-exclusive perspectives, personal beliefs, pet philosophies and operating paradigm, I prefer a social network that defaults to a "warren".

In the end, it is probably a case of the "Evil Twin": http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/09/17/your-evil-twins-and-how...

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