The ‘Circles’ feature of Google+ has caught the pulse of social networking users by allowing them to segregate their entire friend circle in different groups and post different status updates for different circle of friends. Facebook however has not yet implemented this feature where friends can be segregated into different groups; your status updates can be viewed by all your friends unless you filter your friends using the ‘Hide from’ option under ‘Customize’. Though you can divide your friends manually on Facebook, it is a time consuming process especially if your ‘Friends’ list is running in hundreds. Luckily, there is an iPhone app named Katango to let you group Facebook friends automatically.
How does Katango iPhone app work?
At least, if you are accessing Facebook from your iPhone, you do not need to manually divide your Facebook friends if you have bookmarked Katango app on your iPhone screen. The app creates multiple groups and segregates friends accordingly in those groups on the basis of friends’ data on Facebook.
Katango iPhone app has been recently launched for iPhone Facebook users and it is also coming up with an Android version in the near future. Start with downloading this app from the iTunes App Store, launch the app and then sign in with your Facebook username and password. The next step is to find the ‘Groups’ button placed at the bottom of the screen and tap on it. Katango uses recent advances in clustering math and takes just a few seconds to create groups of friends on the basis of whom you interact with the most. Thus, you can put in people you met in school, high school, college, people who read your blog, people you work with and people you meet during weekend bashes.
Name a group, add and edit groups
Certain groups are formed on your iPhone on the basis of your friends’ interaction with other friends in your circle. The app lets you add a name for each group. Not only that, you can edit those groups by adding and deleting friends from those circles. Go to the bottom of each group to edit it. Katango keeps those people who are likely to belong to a group at the top of the groups and keep outliers (those who may be comparatively less interactive with the rest of the people in the group) toward the bottom.
With groups created, you can post status updates – exclusive to a certain group and refrain people from other groups from seeing it. You can post photos directly from your iPhone picture album and those photos will get uploaded as private posts that only selected recipients can view, ‘Like’ and comment. Hence, Katango enhances privacy level, by one step.
