Facebook Retools With Focus on User Control

Social networking colossus Facebook rolled out an ambitious set of new features on Wednesday, each aimed at giving users finer-grained control over their activities and interactions on the site.

The changes include an overhaul of Facebook Groups, which the company is retooling to make more suitable to smaller, more closely connected sets of people, such as an extended family or a sports team.

Membership is by invitation only, and currently capped at 250 people, which Facebook says will encourage more intimate, meaningful groups to form.

"We've long heard that people would find Facebook more useful if it were easier to connect with smaller groups of their friends instead of always sharing with everyone they know," Facebook CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a blog post.

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