In an update this evening, Facebook has added completely granular privacy controls using friendlists, and also added the option to show more information to 'friends of friends'. It is now possible to control what elements of your profile can be seen by different friend lists, and the lists themselves have been updated so that it's very easy to move users to new lists or between lists.
As part of this change, the 'limited profile' has now got its own friend list. In addition, the Facebook blog reports that when uploading new photos or albums, they can be specified for a particular friend list - so you could share an album just with your family, for example, or just with your girlfriend.
It isn't clear what the priority of the lists are - i.e. if someone is in two lists, one of which has access to photos and one of which doesn't, which one trumps? I'm assuming that being in more friend lists always give more access, apart from the limited profile list which has special status and restricts access regardless of other lists. This seems to be the case although I cannot find it stated anywhere.
This is a great move for Facebook and will be really useful for users expanding their social graph to a wider range of people. For example, I may wish to share my photos with my family, but not my wall, which is more likely to contain offensive banter from friends, or visa versa.
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