Facebook Smart Lists to automatically sort your friends

Facebook Inc, the world's largest social network, is simplifying tools to automate lists of friends who can see posts and photos as it steps up competition with a new rival service from Google Inc.
So-called Smart Lists, set to debut this week, will generate groups of friends for Facebook users based on common attributes in their profiles such as a family, city, school or employer, said Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering. The optional feature eliminates the need to create lists from scratch, and also lets members be manually added or deleted.