Sorted Friends Will Help With Gather

I'm beginning to like it. I Click on 'all activities' and scroll down to articles. The big down fall is it will reset back to 'all activities every time you go back to your page. So, I use my back button after reading the article. But, I guess you have to refresh every time too. Ah!

It will take a while to getting used to though. Everyone needs to calm down and accept the change

I am making a friend set called Ignore. I wonder if I wouldn't be better off disconnecting from those I'm putting into my Ignore friend set.

Simple fact is that I don't want my entire feed filled with copy/pasted comments that one person is making at the speed of light. I'm putting those people in Ignore and then I'll tell my feed not to include them.

Perhaps so, but there's two issues with sorting from my standpoint, Karen.

Firstly, time. Sorting over 500 connections is time consuming. Time I'd rather use exploring their content instead.

Second: How do you sort them? There's no logical way. "Favorites" and "Non Favorites"? Yeah, that'll make them feel good. How about "Those I visit daily" and "Those I never visit" (Well then why be connected in the first place if you never visit them intentionally. Or maybe "Ohio" "New York" etc friends? It's just another step toward insanity that I cannot see as being useful to me.

Now, I suppose one could divvy them up by interests: Art, Paranormal, Crafters etc. But what happens when *gasp* someone fits more than one group? And again I'm not sure it'd be worth all that time to split them up. Then you have a bazillion mini groups to wade through vs one ginormous all in one group.

I'm not seeing a plus side yet. :(

I am liking it..thanks for sharing.

You can sort them however makes sense to you. :) And there's no question about whether they'll feel good being put in "Non Favorites" since they can't see what group you put them in!

I have groups for work colleagues, family, friends, people who like classical music, and then one for people I don't really know so well.

I am still lost on here ... just signed on a bit ago though. I am sure I will figure it out and maybe even grow to like it.... maybe!

This is one of the features I really like.

Jennifer even if they can't see what group they are in it seems senseless to me. They are all "friends" why change that and give useless titles to them as though they were products on a grocer's shelf.

I already had my friend sets made before the upgrade. But I still view content from all friends until I get my groupings perfected. It's hard when I have contacts with the same names.

I am still pecking around trying to figure this new system all out.

I now wish that they would upgrade the points system and give them out a bit more and in bigger quantities. LOL

Mine are unassorted for now. But I like knowing there are options.

I don't really know what I'm doing.

I think in a few days we'll get more used to it and more organized with it. I like being able to see the pieces.

I know I can sort by friends, but am afraid I might miss someone.

It does feel a little more cumbersome, and I'm Gathering slower, but I guess it's okay. It will get easier.

That would GREAT, Karen, except that, ever since the upgrade where they made that sorting of contacts into groups thing possible, all that happens when I try to do it is that I get some crazy error message saying that it's "taking too much memory" or something like that and it doesn't sort anybody into ANYTHING...

It let me "create a group" of my own, but, as soon as I go to put anyone IN it, I get the weird error message... As a result, I've had to put all of my new contacts into my old "Friends" group!!!

Now I know I am not here enough, where do I find the sorted friends thing?

lol I am lucky I figured out how to just accept the friends!

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I am still trying to sort my friends out

I am still learning about all the changes. I was out of town all day Friday so I am a bit behind. I think I like most of the changes though. I am finding that many people are complaining though. I think that once they settle down and give it a chance, they will learn that learning and adjusting will bring quicker results than complaining.

I am in the midst of trying to sort my friends as well.