Even though I would normally want Marc in my
friends list in Orkut, I decided today that I had to remove him. Currently it seems
that he has just added everyone he can to his friends list, and it seems that introduces
a lot of friend-spam... I may have to re-think this, but it seems that social computing
breaks down when the "friend" relationship doesn't have meaning... For example, today
I declined some people because they weren't really my friends (I had never heard of
them in fact)...
How should this work? Is it purely a networking device (in which case we are
all each others friends) or is there supposed to be some relationship present to justify
the link? Should their be a quality of the link ("just met", "good friend", "best
friend")?
Hey Chris - well, you know I bailed. I do tend to agree with you. I started getting invites from people who I didn't know or didn't feel I had enough of a connection with that I would consider them a friend (or want to) and didn't know what to do with those invitations without insulting anyone. I'd rather do dinner, anytime! (darn I was jealous that you got to be in London. Did you get to go to the V&A? Did you go to Julia's for tea?)
Yeah, there definitely has to be something more to it than just accepting someone else's offer to being a friend. If there isn't anything more, then the whole friend thing doesn't have any meaning whatsoever.
Marc in Orkut...
Even though I would normally want Marc in my friends list in Orkut, I decided today that I had to remove him. Currently it seems that he has just added everyone he can to his friends list, and it seems that introduces a lot of friend-spam... I may have to re-think this, but it seems that social computing breaks down when the "friend" relationship doesn't have meaning... For example, today I declined some people because they weren't really my friends (I had never heard of them in fact)...
How should this work? Is it purely a networking device (in which case we are all each others friends) or is there supposed to be some relationship present to justify the link? Should their be a quality of the link ("just met", "good friend", "best friend")?
9:15 AM | #Software
02/13/2004 10:12 AM
Yes. There should definitely be a "quality" associated with the link.Curt Hagenlocher
02/13/2004 1:59 PM
Trackback: http://weblogs.asp.net/tmarman/archive/2004/02/13/72686.aspxTim Marman | http://weblogs.asp.net/tmarman
02/13/2004 3:10 PM
Hey Chris - well, you know I bailed. I do tend to agree with you. I started getting invites from people who I didn't know or didn't feel I had enough of a connection with that I would consider them a friend (or want to) and didn't know what to do with those invitations without insulting anyone. I'd rather do dinner, anytime! (darn I was jealous that you got to be in London. Did you get to go to the V&A? Did you go to Julia's for tea?)Julie Lerman | julialermaninc.com/blog | jlermanAT NOSPAMthedatafarm dot com
02/13/2004 4:15 PM
Yeah, there definitely has to be something more to it than just accepting someone else's offer to being a friend. If there isn't anything more, then the whole friend thing doesn't have any meaning whatsoever.milbertus | http://www.milbertus.com | milbertusAT NOSPAMmilbertus dot com
02/13/2004 4:33 PM
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