Facebook's New Smart Lists

The new Smart Lists is another example of "seems like a good idea".

This puppy showed up on my Wall earlier this evening:

So I thought I would check it out. My +/- 3,900 friends are made up of disparate interest groups from RL friends, dog show cohorts and acquaintances, Zynga gamers, fellow Gleeks and various people, animals, fictional characters and inanimate objects.

I have been using what I recall to be "groups" for more than a year now as a way of tailoring my posts for these different categories of friends and acquaintances in a passing-interest way of not annoying some people with posts they have absolutely no interest in having scrolled down their wall.

I was interested in how this new FB classification would or could be worked into that scenario.

Bottom line...waste of time.  Am I just a crabby old fart resistant to change, is Facebook still tinkering with the interface or is it just a pain in the ass?

Instead of just looking at how I actually used these friend groups FB has given me a bunch of generic categories and included my previous lists.  But there is no obvious way to organize the ones you want to see - the only thing you can do is hide the ones you don't want.  This lack of functionality makes the new FB Lists virtually useless to me.

For "Close Friends" FB gives you some suggestions, based on I suppose, recent interactions - and it got most of those right. Except that I don't really need another notification system for people I actively seek out or who are already showing up on my Top News.

So, I tried the Create a List option and this is where FB totally fails. Create a List gives me one option..Search by name - it doesn't give me the option to chose from the groups I have already created or the previous option that I found useful in the past, the "friends on no list" List.

So if I am going to create a new list this is my option now:

Yeah, right - I am going to scroll through all my 3,900 friends to pick out the ones I want.

Okay, so maybe this is a personal problem.
Maybe using the previous Friends Groups was not a high priority for most FB users.
But, really, for those of us who did, how much extra coding would it have taken to add those Groups to the drop down menu?
Seems like a no-brainer to me.
Facebook, still fixing things that aren't broken and ignoring the things people clamor for.