On 5/28/08, Tom Dell'Aringa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you had a social network that had all the typical features, friends, > photos, chat, etc., and it also had polls, would you consider polls as part > of that social network?
Possibly, if you implement it in such a way that encourages the participation of your friends. A good example would be Facebook's "Become a Fan." When one of my friends becomes a fan of something I like too, I'll typically click on the link to become a fan as well. My wife and friends do the same sort of thing. Now that I think about it... there's some app on FB that allows people to take sides on a debate and elaborate on their positions. While not a poll, that's an example of how a poll can be socialized. So if you take a poll, perhaps your friends could see that you took it, see how you answered, and then take it themselves. That eliminates the one-way feedback problem by providing multi-way feedback. Sorry, I keep having ideas. : ) Perhaps you could use polls to *encourage* socialization? When you publish people's answers, that could be a discussion starter. Adding a link saying "Comment on this answer" or "Respond to <Friend's Name>" or something like that would make that flow smoothly. - F. ________________________________________________________________ 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
