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September 21, 2011 03:51 am GMT

Facebooks Smart Lists: Real Friends Again

joegreenThis guest post was written by Joe Green,the Founder and President of Causes. Causes is the largest online platform for activism and one of the original Facebook Applications. Green's approach to building online tools is rooted in his offline experience as a grassroots political organizer for federal, state, and local campaigns.Disclosure: Green was an early advisor to Facebook and has a small amount of stock.
Facebook's recently-launched friend lists are the most important change to the service since platform, and possibly since News Feed. With them, Facebook further jumps ahead as the truest representation of who people are and how they are connected to others. But they aren't just helpful Facebook really needed to launch this to maintain the integrity of its graph.To understand why this is so important, it's helpful to look back at Facebook's history.

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