I think everyone is aware of these issues and can clearly express the problem based on the real life social network presentation, but its about execution. How do you create this system that works for users ? Even if you built it, would users even care or care enough to leave facebook ? Describing the problem is the easy part.
The Future of Social Networks
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Re: The Future of Social Networks
#12I just avoid Facebook all-together. am content with IRC and HN-style sites. when i really need to chat, I use Gmail's Chat or use Skype.
For me, anonymity and control are the reasons
Re: The Future of Social Networks
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's referring to Friend Lists ( https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=768 ). If you use Twitter, it's like Twitter's lists. Facebook's privacy settings are now pretty good. You can make things visible or invisible to everyone, networks, friends of friends, friends, friend lists or individuals and any combination of these things, e.g. a status update visible only to family except my mother.
Will it allow me to split my friends into separate lists, and then have separate news feeds for each of those lists? I can see that I am able to post a status update and specify a list when I do it, but it ends up getting mixed into my normal news feed and doesn't have any indication of who can see it. This just feels dangerous to me. I'll start using Facebook lists when they implement it properly. I want my lists of…
Unfortunately, you can't really trust them to implement that properly, IMO.
The solution is to use separate accounts.
Re: The Future of Social Networks
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's referring to Friend Lists ( https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=768 ). If you use Twitter, it's like Twitter's lists. Facebook's privacy settings are now pretty good. You can make things visible or invisible to everyone, networks, friends of friends, friends, friend lists or individuals and any combination of these things, e.g. a status update visible only to family except my mother.
Will it allow me to split my friends into separate lists, and then have separate news feeds for each of those lists? I can see that I am able to post a status update and specify a list when I do it, but it ends up getting mixed into my normal news feed and doesn't have any indication of who can see it. This just feels dangerous to me. I'll start using Facebook lists when they implement it properly. I want my lists of…
That's exactly my take on these features.
Some of this functionality may be there, but the UI and UX is so horrible that there is little way to predict the output of the system.
Re: The Future of Social Networks
#15I think everyone is aware of these issues and can clearly express the problem based on the real life social network presentation, but its about execution. How do you create this system that works for users ? Even if you built it, would users even care or care enough to leave facebook ? Describing the problem is the easy part.
Maybe not model all your entities as "friends"?