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An interesting concept I hadn't thought of: how desirable is it from an aging Facebook user to start off with a clean slate? Given the amount of people I now know in my age group complaining that no one on their Facebook feeds is relevant to their lives post-university, I'd imagine it's quite high. I know my Facebook feed has acquired quite a bit of cruft over the years.

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Another problem, post-university, is keeping a clean Facebook profile when all your new connections are professionals.

G+ solve this with circles, but I don't know anyone on G+, and it's too easy to make privacy mistakes on Facebook.

My Facebook profile is turning into my new Linkedin as I'm getting older.

Add to that family members, and you have pretty much the problem with Facebook currently (imo): focus.

Unfortunately, it's also the only thing Facebook pretty much seeks to avoid, in favor of making the most connections between users as possible.

You can still create friend lists in Facebook, but it's not nearly as easy as G+'s drag-and-drop circles UI.

I delete people and don't feel bad about it thus I keep my FB(s) to minimum friend levels. I see a difference between people I like and have met vs. people who I share life experience with. I've kept the latter on my principal FB and subsequently created a separate FB for the former. Only those on the personal FB know about the acquaintance FB, but not vice-versa, of course. I don't even switch back and forth much, keeping it at a 80/20 time split. It works really well, actually.

My problem is that I delete many people, but I still have divides in groups: family, friends, co-workers, distant connections.

Separate accounts seems to really be the only option aside from trudging through heaps of menus to make lists. I had a list relegated to family/distant connections, however I can't for the life of me find out how to configure it again, or find it for that matter.

Imagine this concept coming from school. I cant imagine the amount of bloat facebook will have for younger users. Having a thousand friends entirely from before college would make me jump to a new network as soon as it became popular on campus.

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