OK read it. I'm not a fb heavy user, and I'm not on Twitter, so I missed some of the comments. Here are my thoughts:
1. I think fb should exactly filter interactions by relevancy of friends. And more specifically by relevancy of friends crossed with information categories. I have close friends, distant friends, soccer friends, inventor friends, tech friends, etc. Facebook does some categorization but it's not granular enough and not dynamic enough for me to lever it to make my interactions more valuable.
2. Privacy is my main issue on the cost of commenting and leaving 'likes'. I never do it b/c I only want to tell 5 ppl that I like a pic, and that blast is going to the world. You should try to define what 'privacy' actually means to people and break it down. I bet it's different for different people and you can add value by customizing the privacy product, and again, making it more dynamic.
3. I like the economic model for social interaction. Good first step. If you're actually going to study this you may want to decision-tree map users' interactions with the site and put some costs and values to each decision...
4. From the screen-shot I see how FB could become a social turret if designed well enough. This is very cool. Especially if you can develop a system to quantify and aggregate social interactions...the collective brain...
5. From an 'academic paper' perspective, using terms like 'triple-whammy' signal to me that this is a stream of thought paper, which takes away from the presentation of the model.
1. I think fb should exactly filter interactions by relevancy of friends. And more specifically by relevancy of friends crossed with information categories. I have close friends, distant friends, soccer friends, inventor friends, tech friends, etc. Facebook does some categorization but it's not granular enough and not dynamic enough for me to lever it to make my interactions more valuable.
2. Privacy is my main issue on the cost of commenting and leaving 'likes'. I never do it b/c I only want to tell 5 ppl that I like a pic, and that blast is going to the world. You should try to define what 'privacy' actually means to people and break it down. I bet it's different for different people and you can add value by customizing the privacy product, and again, making it more dynamic.
3. I like the economic model for social interaction. Good first step. If you're actually going to study this you may want to decision-tree map users' interactions with the site and put some costs and values to each decision...
4. From the screen-shot I see how FB could become a social turret if designed well enough. This is very cool. Especially if you can develop a system to quantify and aggregate social interactions...the collective brain...
5. From an 'academic paper' perspective, using terms like 'triple-whammy' signal to me that this is a stream of thought paper, which takes away from the presentation of the model.
Best, Mike