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Would you use a simple social network?

Would you use this?

  • Yes, definitely - I love social networks.

  • Yes, I've been looking for something to use but I don't like Facebook

  • I may try it.

  • Nope, wouldn't use it.

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manlymatt83

Lifer
So recently I created yiglet.com, and many of you gave me excellent feedback on it. Now, I'm thinking about starting a new project: a simple social network.

Basically, it would allow you to link to other people simply by typing in their email address. They'd get a link to update their profile in email, but they wouldn't have to. So it'd basically be an address book on steroids, but by adding that person to your address book, an account gets "created" for them, and they can manage the data.

There'd be a few links: Meet, Talk, Link, etc. Meet would allow you to meet new people, much in the same way you would meet people in real life (as yiglet tries to focus on making todo lists as similar to paper and pencil, this site would try to focus on making things work as close as they do in real life). Talk would allow you to send an email, or have a quick chat with someone. You could also have a chat with multiple people, if they happen to be around.

The email interface would be powerful too - you could interact with the entire site (almost) via mobile web and email, so you never even really have to login (much like yiglet).

Would anyone here use this?
 
I am waiting for Piglet to come over and slap you silly and then sue you...😉

Also don't most IM programs do what you talked about?
 
Basically, it would allow you to link to other people simply by typing in their email address. They'd get a link to update their profile in email, but they wouldn't have to. So it'd basically be an address book on steroids, but by adding that person to your address book, an account gets "created" for them, and they can manage the data.
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creepy stalker fest 5000.

no thanks.

then again, I don't do that social networking junk anyway. 400 friends on Facebook? you've got to be fucking kidding me. kids are so delusional these days.
 
zinfamous said:
creepy stalker fest 5000.

no thanks.

then again, I don't do that social networking junk anyway. 400 friends on Facebook? you've got to be fucking kidding me. kids are so delusional these days.
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Look at the sorority chicks who have over 1000 and tell me what you think.
 
zinfamous said:
creepy stalker fest 5000.

no thanks.

then again, I don't do that social networking junk anyway. 400 friends on Facebook? you've got to be fucking kidding me. kids are so delusional these days.
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You are fucking delusional if you equate a Facebook friend to real life friend. I'll meet someone once, and add them.
 
TallBill said:
You are fucking delusional if you equate a Facebook friend to real life friend. I'll meet someone once, and add them.
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I agree! When it's nice have a contact base of your peers.

I don't use social networks to broadcast my self I use them to comunicate with friends.
Facebook for everyone
Twitter for my geek friends
Flickr for photographers
 
Call me old fashioned but whats this big deal with social networks? What happened to emails, instant messaging, and just plain calling people?
 
Hacp said:
Call me old fashioned but whats this big deal with social networks? What happened to emails, instant messaging, and just plain calling people?
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Meet new person out with a group of friends, add on facebook, "oh hey that was fun, lets hang out again", win.
 
TallBill said:
Meet new person out with a group of friends, add on facebook, "oh hey that was fun, lets hang out again", win.
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That's not win, that's fail. If I wanted to hang out with that person, I would have gotten their phone number. Social networking is lame.
 
Mike Gayner said:
That's not win, that's fail. If I wanted to hang out with that person, I would have gotten their phone number. Social networking is lame.
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Well I completely disagree so we'll have to leave it there. Yes, I'd do just fine if facebook didn't exist. But pretty much anyone interesting that I meet these days is on it, so why not.


zinfamous said:
the boundary between real life and internet/facebook is lost on many these days.

hence, my point.
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I don't get what that has to do with my comment. I'm not letting someone into my life just because we're facebook friends.
 
TallBill said:
I don't get what that has to do with my comment. I'm not letting someone into my life just because we're facebook friends.
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So, I wasn't talking about you? Seems to be an issue with the younguns, who were born into a world of AOL. I was (in my mind anyway), crotchety old man by the time that happened. never had an IM account until it showed up in my Gmail. Only spent more than an hour at a time on the internet after finishing undergrad...and I'm not old by any means....but I think Netscape was still around.

Anyway, it has become a "real" way to interact for many people. Maybe not you, but millions out there aren't you.
 
If the information is available to be seen by others, I'd be pretty pissed off if my friend broadcast my email address like that. "Creating" an account for somebody without their permission would irritate me.
 
Facebook was simple. It was simply adding friends from different schools. SCHOOLS. And only limited schools that it added. Kept most of the trash off of it. Most the fail people from our high school migrated to Myspace, and I remember 90% of the people from my high school on Facebook was at a UC system (top achievers clearly). Then it all crumbled. They allowed stupid schools in, wall posts, photos... high school kids to join, international users. Now it's just trash.

Everything starts small but ambitions and power take over and you want to be the #1 site. You can't be #1 by being too simple.
 
I think it'd be nice to have a separate site (instead of your "daily action" sites like Facebook and MySpace) where you could basically track your friends and family members contact info. So if you want to have a party or a baby shower or something like that, just hit the site and pull a list of your guests addresses/emails (which they keep up to date themselves). Then again, this probably already exists.
 
Fuck no.

IMO, social networking sites are for people who have zero people skills and are afraid to actually meet people.

As far as "meeting new friends on the internet," isn't that what ATOT is for? 😛
 
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