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Welcome to 5+ years ago. You need the NEXT popular thing, not to try and show up late to a party that's already ending.
 
Leros said:
I was thinking more along the lines of you working on top of Facebook, completely on your own. I'm not sure if thats technically feasible.
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Like using their APIs to filter? I don't think they give access to all their members to filter like that.
 
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bfdd said:
Welcome to 5+ years ago. You need the NEXT popular thing, not to try and show up late to a party that's already ending.
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Apple made the Iphone in 2007 and the Android G1 didn't come out until two years later. I guess google shouldn't of showed up since they were late to the party too? Right?
 
For this to actually work, you would have to brand your site to your own college and somehow attach it to a social scene, like the Greeks, local music, sports, bars, etc.

If you want to succeed in social networking as it is currently evolving, then you should learn FaceBook code and start making apps directly for facebook.
 
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tonygeor said:
Apple made the Iphone in 2007 and the Android G1 didn't come out until two years later. I guess google shouldn't of showed up since they were late to the party too? Right?
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Completely different and the iPhone was technically LATE to the smart phone game.
 
preslove said:
For this to actually work, you would have to brand your site to your own college and somehow attach it to a social scene, like the Greeks, local music, sports, bars, etc.

If you want to succeed in social marketing as it is currently evolving, then you should learn FaceBook code and start making apps directly for facebook.
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Thanks for the good advice 🙂
 
Leros said:
I understand that your site is different, but you are still competing with Facebook.

Would it be possible for your site to easily work in conjunction with Facebook to offer a simple way to offer functionality to a subset of my friends (such as the ones currently attending university)? Use the Facebook login system, automatically suck down the appropriate subset of friends, etc.

I think your idea has some merit if it can work in conjunction with Facebook to bring that idea of a private place to share drunken photos with your friends, but I don't think people will flock to a separate site just for those few features when Facebook does the other 99% of things just fine.
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The one thing I dislike about Facebook... or at least while looking through all of the options, I cannot find it... is that I'm unable to almost classify my friends. I have no qualms with being linked to some of the people I went to high school with and such, but some of them... well, I don't care to see what they post half of the time. I wish I could do things like create a group called "Users I Care About", add people to it and tell my News Feed to only show that (for example).

To my knowledge, that is not possible to do on Facebook.
 
Aikouka said:
The one thing I dislike about Facebook... or at least while looking through all of the options, I cannot find it... is that I'm unable to almost classify my friends. I have no qualms with being linked to some of the people I went to high school with and such, but some of them... well, I don't care to see what they post half of the time. I wish I could do things like create a group called "Users I Care About", add people to it and tell my News Feed to only show that (for example).

To my knowledge, that is not possible to do on Facebook.
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I know you can exclude individual users from seeing certain things. I thought they had added a groups feature too.

Haven't been a facebook in 2 years, so I don't really know.
 
Leros said:
I know you can exclude individual users from seeing certain things. I thought they had added a groups feature too.

Haven't been a facebook in 2 years, so I don't really know.
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I know you can ban individual users from appearing on your News Feed, which works on a person-by-person basis. I know I banned one person that constantly put up shit like, "I need someone to tend to my farm!!1!"

I actually created a group earlier to see what you could do with it... I hope my friends don't wonder why I invited them all to a group called "test".
 
I tried to sign up just to see your site and it wouldn't let me. It said that my university email isn't in your whitelist. How are you doing your email filtering?
 
Right now I just have it open to these schools:


Bowling Green State University
Cleveland State University
Kent State University
Miami University
Ohio University
The Ohio State University
University of Akron
University of Cincinnati
University of Texas at El Paso
University of Toledo
Wright State University


what school do u go to?
 
tonygeor said:
Right now I just have it open to these schools:


Bowling Green State University
Cleveland State University
Kent State University
Miami University
Ohio University
The Ohio State University
University of Akron
University of Cincinnati
University of Texas at El Paso
University of Toledo
Wright State University


what school do u go to?
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University of Texas at Austin (mail.utexas.edu)
 
tonygeor said:
Right now I just have it open to these schools:


Bowling Green State University
Cleveland State University
Kent State University
Miami University
Ohio University
The Ohio State University
University of Akron
University of Cincinnati
University of Texas at El Paso
University of Toledo
Wright State University


what school do u go to?
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sounds like facebook2004
 
Aikouka said:
The one thing I dislike about Facebook... or at least while looking through all of the options, I cannot find it... is that I'm unable to almost classify my friends. I have no qualms with being linked to some of the people I went to high school with and such, but some of them... well, I don't care to see what they post half of the time. I wish I could do things like create a group called "Users I Care About", add people to it and tell my News Feed to only show that (for example).

To my knowledge, that is not possible to do on Facebook.
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Why did you accept those people as your friends?
 
Aikouka said:
The one thing I dislike about Facebook... or at least while looking through all of the options, I cannot find it... is that I'm unable to almost classify my friends. I have no qualms with being linked to some of the people I went to high school with and such, but some of them... well, I don't care to see what they post half of the time. I wish I could do things like create a group called "Users I Care About", add people to it and tell my News Feed to only show that (for example).

To my knowledge, that is not possible to do on Facebook.
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You can do that on your iPhone at least. Haven't checked on the site.
 
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