A Color-Coded Cheat Sheet to Facebook's Redesign [Facebook]

Woke up to a scary and confusing new Facebook? Us too! We'll have more to say about it shortly, but in the meantime, here's a nice little shorthand chart to guide you through Facebook's latest facelift.

And before you start wailing, no one's saying Facebook stole anything from Google+. Obviously and demonstrably not! But if you're looking for features that are unique to Zuck's empire now, it is true that you're going to have to stick to the borderlands. Full pic below via: [@MarkMeyerPhoto via @SocialMediaBham]

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Facebook's Rolling Out Smart Lists and Summaries for People with Too Many Friends [Facebook]

Facebook's doling out new features to the masses this week. Their Google-Plus-alike Smart Lists will help you divide up the friends you care about. And their new email summaries will mush together the thousands of notifications you get from friends you don't.

Smart Lists, as you know, allows you to cull through your friends and divvy them up according to how they relate. That's not all that smart, so they'll automagically create lists for you based on associations—college, workplace, etc. You can also determine how you see them in your feed. Select your Work list, and you'll see your work buddies in your feed. Meanwhile, put someone in the Acquaintances list, and you'll simply see them less.

Facebook's also reportedly testing out new summary emails for those of you who didn't turn off all email notifications a long time ago. People who get bombarded with emails about people commenting on how much they loved True Blood can now expect emails digesting all the comments into one simple place. That's nice of them... but I kind of don't want the emails at all. [Facebook Blog, Inside Facebook via Geekosystem]

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Facebook's Potentially Creepy 'Subscriber' Feature Isn't Actually Creepy [Facebook]

Facebook, in a rare coup, has rolled out a new sharing feature without somehow completely botching its privacy implications and freaking everyone out. It sounds scary—people you aren't friends with can read your updates—but it's opt-in! Thanks, Mark.

The Subscribe Button is meant to let you follow (HELLO, TWITTER!) "interesting" people you aren't friends with, like Mark Zuckerberg and other venerable public figures. You can also set your account to be followed, making public status updates of your choosing.

Basically, if you don't care about this, you don't have to do anything, and it's as if it doesn't exist. Which is how everything on Facebook should be. I'm hoping Facebook's learned from its past mistakes that not everyone wants to gyrate and writhe in Zuckerberg's Roman orgy of life sharing.

But isn't this entire thing what Facebook Pages are for? Why would Beyoncé set her account as followable when she has a fan page for that? Why would any remotely famous person not do the same thing? Who would want strangers reading what they say, if not on Twitter? Do you? [Facebook]

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