Facebook Freaks Out

They must be freaked out, because they have given up the one thing that set them apart... originality.  Facebook has shown a major concern over other social networking sites by adopting some of their features.  For example, they will have a function that works like circles on Google+, and a subscribe feature that mimics Twitter.

A few key things to remember is that Facebook has allowed you to sort friends in the past, but it was a colorless feature that was not intuitive or helpful, and was aggravating to manage.  It also made something like the subscribe feature impossible because the controls over who could see what is difficult.  Users will finally be able to have a fully public, work, friends and private realm.  Friending will not have to be a mutual event.

It's good to see the features, though the seem to have come as a response to someone else's ingenuity... which must trouble them quite a bit, as it should.