Just what the world needs, another social network....
Friended is a new social network that wants to get real
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Re: Friended is a new social network that wants to get real
#42> Friended wants to give users a deeper and more meaningful connection to one another, which the company believes they crave. > The idea is to give people a chance to share how they really feel in a vulnerable, one-to-one setting. In playing around with the app, I had conversations with people about how to make friends in NYC and why it sometimes feel like others don’t care about us as much as we care about them. I'm…
"Time" : https://www.futurity.org/friends-time-1718952-2/
It's actually pretty fast actually. 200 hours is nothing.
What really happens is that grown up don't invest the required hours because their days are already filled to the brink.
200 hours would be 1 hour drink 4 time a week during a whole year. Once you word it that way, for sure, you got a friendship running !
Or as someone said below being in deep shit. First, while in deep shit, you spend many consecutive hours with your partner(s) adding toward the 200 hours theoretical threshold. Second, helping each others is a very fundamental dynamic in friendship, I suspect it's happening at reverse here : rather than becoming friends, thus helping each other, people who starts by helping each other then are friends (monkey brain power).
So maybe you should advice people wanting to make friends to join charities and other helping works : several time a week, selfless environment.
Re: Friended is a new social network that wants to get real
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
$4.99 a week has to be a joke, right? $20 a month is about double what I pay for Netflix and half of my phone bill. Just to send messages to people? I'm sure the article is leaving things out but as of right now I don't get this at all.
Half your phone bill? Wow. Granted I have 3 people one the plan bit I'm more like 7x the monthly fee
I spend $10 on my phone (prepaid) which is usually enough for 3-4 months :)
Yeah, I don't make many calls, usually I just ring someone that I'm there or schedule a meeting.
Re: Friended is a new social network that wants to get real
#44> Friended wants to give users a deeper and more meaningful connection to one another, which the company believes they crave. > The idea is to give people a chance to share how they really feel in a vulnerable, one-to-one setting. In playing around with the app, I had conversations with people about how to make friends in NYC and why it sometimes feel like others don’t care about us as much as we care about them. I'm…
"Time" : https://www.futurity.org/friends-time-1718952-2/ It's actually pretty fast actually. 200 hours is nothing. What really happens is that grown up don't invest the required hours because their days are already filled to the brink. 200 hours would be 1 hour drink 4 time a week during a whole year. Once you word it that way, for sure, you got a friendship running ! Or as someone said below being in deep shit. Fir…
> Or as someone said below being in deep shit.
Yeah. There's ways to force or speed up the process. I think a lot of corporate team-building activities are basically this; "let's go do something miserable to simulate closeness."
Re: Friended is a new social network that wants to get real
#45> Friended wants to give users a deeper and more meaningful connection to one another, which the company believes they crave. > The idea is to give people a chance to share how they really feel in a vulnerable, one-to-one setting. In playing around with the app, I had conversations with people about how to make friends in NYC and why it sometimes feel like others don’t care about us as much as we care about them. I'm…
> There is no short conversation you can have that'll turn a stranger into the kind of friend they're seeking. I'm actually not sure this is true. And I say that because I'm actually not sure this is true: > It. Takes. Time. And I say that because of things like [0], which seems to say that connection is more about vulnerability and depth of understanding than anything else, and achieving that depth can be accelerate…
I will say that it's probably possible to min-max or speedrun a relationship, but I don't think it's easy, and I don't think we're at the stage where a phone app can do it for you.
I also don't think it would feel very fun, and is probably not good for you.
Re: Friended is a new social network that wants to get real
#46> Friended wants to give users a deeper and more meaningful connection to one another, which the company believes they crave. > The idea is to give people a chance to share how they really feel in a vulnerable, one-to-one setting. In playing around with the app, I had conversations with people about how to make friends in NYC and why it sometimes feel like others don’t care about us as much as we care about them. I'm…
> It. Takes. Time. That's it. There's no shortcut There is - being in deep shit together for a brief time. The deeper the shit the shorter the time needed for a true friendship.
Announcing my new app: Shittr.
You pay me $1000, and I will put you, alongside two other people, through a miserable grind of an experience. One of you will not survive; the other two will form a long-lasting bond.
Re: Friended is a new social network that wants to get real
#47> No pressure, no public commenting and no rejection Adults need to learn how to handle rejection. It's so essential to learning how to be happy in the real world. People who are lonely because they fear rejection need to fix the fear of rejection part before they will actually experience a real friendship. Being open with each other is essential to friendship, and being open risks rejection. Friendship isn't a indiv…
> Adults need to learn how to handle rejection. It's so essential to learning how to be happy in the real world.
There's a difference between someone rejecting you, and a bunch of anon/pseudonymous trolls piling on.
Re: Friended is a new social network that wants to get real
#48> Friended wants to give users a deeper and more meaningful connection to one another, which the company believes they crave. > The idea is to give people a chance to share how they really feel in a vulnerable, one-to-one setting. In playing around with the app, I had conversations with people about how to make friends in NYC and why it sometimes feel like others don’t care about us as much as we care about them. I'm…
To me it seems the better ones are the ones where there isn’t a symbiosis (that’s kinda transactional but with friendship), I think the better ones are the ones without expectations other than having a disinterested bond.
Re: Friended is a new social network that wants to get real
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There is no short conversation you can have that'll turn a stranger into the kind of friend they're seeking. I'm actually not sure this is true. And I say that because I'm actually not sure this is true: > It. Takes. Time. And I say that because of things like [0], which seems to say that connection is more about vulnerability and depth of understanding than anything else, and achieving that depth can be accelerate…
I will say that it's probably possible to min-max or speedrun a relationship, but I don't think it's easy, and I don't think we're at the stage where a phone app can do it for you. I also don't think it would feel very fun, and is probably not good for you.
As though the normal means of forming relationships is fun or good for you? How many people commit suicide over failed relationships? How many people are committed to bad relationships due to sunk cost fallacy?
Forming relationships is a pain in the ass no matter how you slice it.
Re: Friended is a new social network that wants to get real
#50I like the idea, but 2 things. 1) where did they get the prices of $4.99 a week? Facebook's average revenue per user per quarter is ~$25. That's approximately $1.50 a week, for their most profitable section. Elsewhere, FB makes $6 ARPU per quarter, or around 37¢ a week. I'd be willing to pay $1 a month for a social network if it manages to get around the network effects etc. but ~$20(!) for something Facebook enables…
$4.99 a week has to be a joke, right? $20 a month is about double what I pay for Netflix and half of my phone bill. Just to send messages to people? I'm sure the article is leaving things out but as of right now I don't get this at all.