Facebook just announced new, personalized way for people to communicate. Really important to give people right tools to enable people to communicate as much as possible. This means giving users control over their information, what they’re sharing, when sharing, and with whom. This also helps the promotion of the site too. Today, Facebook has 67M active users, 2/3 are outside the US - 18 months ago, it was 90% US.

The vast majority of users are not US college students now; there’s a great diversity in types of relationships. Facebook privacy is based on social proximity - you can now choose to share information with friends of friends, all friends, and some friends, only me, specific networks, everyone on Facebook - and user can exclude friends or friend lists Friend lists are “private groups” of your friends. No one can see the friend lists you make.

Today we’re integrating friend lists and privacy - you can now include or exclude friend lists. It also contain new ways to create friend lists. When you share photos with specific friends, you’ll be prompted to save those people as a list list, and when you send or confirm a friend request, user can in-line add friends to one or more friend lists. Facebook chat is launching in the coming weeks. A new communication channel will be opened soon and enable real time conversation on the site.