You wrote: "As with any social networking applications, the quality of a given social graph heavily depends on whether your users are using their real name in their profile."
*I disagree*. I know some very very vibrant, highly sticky social networking applications and the quality of the social graph is orthogonal to the % distribution of real name vs. screen names on the site. And people search does work - if you search for people based on their screen name. My mom - a very heavy blogger on a social networking site that I designed - has deep, rich connections with MANY people - many she only knows their screen names. I can share more theoretical work with you about concepts of identity on social networking sites if you are interested. Peace, Will On Jan 30, 2008 3:20 PM, Alvin Woon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As with any social networking applications, the quality of a given social > graph heavily depends on whether your users are using their real name in > their profile. Certain features such as 'people search' won't even be > usable > if users don't use real name when signing up. > > So the question is how do you encourage user to use their real name > instead > of their nickname. We can't really prevent a user from signing up using a > fake/nickname and there's really no way to tell anyway. What kind of > incentive or encouragement we can give user to nudge them towards this > area > other than the common privacy reassurances like 'we won't share your > contact > info....'? > > Please advise. > > Kind regards, > Alvin > ________________________________________________________________ > *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* > February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA > Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- ~ will "No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it." Alan Cooper - "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" ------------------------------------------------------- will evans user experience architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
