A bit late, but thought I'd put my 2 cents worth anyways (and besides, you did ask ;),
I think what your proposing is great, there's no doubt there :) I took your comment as "We need to think of something different..." and went with that, and not to find an alternative to your proposal (because I really do like it and I would be a user ;) ). I was thinking the discussion is about 'different', and once we do that, it will most likely boil down to a question of choice... I think. Why should the social network handle content? Because the social network is already handling content. In fact, it is leading the discussions. It has an environment (color, layout, adds (which is what turned me off), forms (i.e. to create a profile)), it has rules and it does have preset content where 'friends' can annoy everyone until our eyes fall out with their enjoyment of 24 horoscope predictions daily. Sure, we can kick them to the curb and hide them, but that does defeat the purpose, doesn't? Anyways, my point was simply that, for me, the perfect social networking is where I get to take control of my space and decide what, to a greater degree, the content of my space and, what kind of information I want to use to be social... Maybe I don't have any interest in catching up with old college buddies or being suggested that "you ave worked with these people" is a good way to add to my collection of friends. I would rather control my search criteria (Eg. only search for people who like pre-classical non tempered violin duos ;) - no, I wouldn't really have that in my criteria). And, ideally, the people make the top 10 search results have the choice to say "yeah, ok let this guy look at my information" (because I would appreciate that as well). Anyways, before I stop typing (yes, I can do that ;) ) Id like to add that I do not necessarily disagree with your opening analysis: "It seems to me the main problem to me is that a lot of people are alone they because do not necessarily share interests with their colleagues and family members." Its just that I think its an assumption, like you said... I don't think its about not sharing any interests, i rather think its about not knowing how to share interests (specially with family, i would think)... Ok, I'm done typing :) Mart :) On Jan 18, 10:29 am, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]> wrote: > I found diigo is a really good bookmarking site. It has some social > features, although not the ability to find people with same bookmarks > nearby. > > On Jan 18, 8:44 am, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > At a second look... > > >http://pinboard.in/thisis very close to what I proposed. The fee is > > a one-time sign up fee. Their business model is very interesting but > > will prevent growth (the more users the more it costs to join - > > clearly not designed by an economist! - reminiscent of the social > > security business model). > > > On Jan 18, 8:30 am, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > $9.19? They got the business model wrong. > > > > On Jan 18, 12:12 am, Tom Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >http://pinboard.ingivesmealist of people to check out based on their > > > > bookmarking history. I don't know the details of the algorithm and > > > > there's > > > > no flexibility in refining the recommendations but I've found some > > > > interesting people to add to my 'network'. You can only see the > > > > username of > > > > the person. The ability to find out more about people and then contact > > > > them > > > > as Massimo suggests would be a good feature. > > > > > The Facebook feature that lets you create 'lists' of friends so you can > > > > share things with sub-groups of your friends is not subtle enough - as > > > > far > > > > as I can tell it only allows you to send 'messages' to people in a list > > > > - > > > > this can be intrusive as it ends up in their 'inbox' and also usually > > > > emailed. It would be better if you could also do 'wall' posts that can > > > > only > > > > be seen by a sub group of friends (e.g. rude joke for my friends to see > > > > but > > > > not family).
