Facebook unveils new features for organizing friends, downloading user information

“You should take security pretty seriously here,” Recordon said, adding
that the data is “useful for normal people, not as much for developers.”

Zuckerberg also announced changes to the site’s Groups feature that will make it easier to add users to private groups to enable smaller conversations and more targeted information sharing. The new features essentially replace friend lists, which were used by only five percent of users. Zuckerberg said if the same five percent of users create groups the feature would eventually encompass the vast majority of the site’s 500 million users.

Zuckerberg also unveiled a new dashboard that displays how various applications make use of profile information. He said the new solutions were social in nature, rather than product or algorithm focused. He predicted Facebook would be able to solve similar business challenges in the future because of its fundamentally social nature and called the new features the building blocks for a larger movement towards social interactions across a variety of Web platforms.