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By: Facebook? Why Now? » Wired Web Online

Facebook? Why Now? » Wired Web Online — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:33:31 +0000

[...] Scott Rosenberg of Slate follows up with another point: that Facebook’s friends definitions are all messed up. [...]

By: Gunteman

Gunteman — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:24:50 +0000

I also find it annoying that everything is in past tense. How about “work together”? Even “From an organization or team” ends up being something in the past.

By: Why Facebook, Why Now? : Muslim Bloggers Alliance

Why Facebook, Why Now? : Muslim Bloggers Alliance — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:52:52 +0000

[...] Rosenberg says, [...]

By: Hakim Abdullah

Hakim Abdullah — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:00:48 +0000

Why Facebook, Why Now?…

John Betelle set off the quintessential question, for the month, which is a question – at least the way he frames it – that usually refers to some point in our fragile lives that has come to an uncertain and perhaps perilous juncture. Or to an equally …

By: Ethan

Ethan — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:26:01 +0000

This is a problem for me and I am only 17 years old. Yes for all of my friends that age the current system works great. But what about that person who I met at a conference, whose blog I read, whose Twitter I follow, who has done podcast interviews with me, or who has been a part of collaborative projects I have started.

For now I just say that we “Met randomly” and fill in the details.

By: Jerome Paradis

Jerome Paradis — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:19:18 +0000

Well, to be honest, LinkedIn, which is for business networking, is deficient too in that sense.

There are no options for business relations other than worked together or did business together.

You have other kind of relations, for example you might meet at a conference or networked in another sense and not have their business card and email. If your not in the 2 existing business relations, in theory, you need their email to connect with them.

By: Bertil Hatt

Bertil Hatt — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:02:23 +0000

Actually, almost no teenager is using those: you just know people because they were on campus at a point, or you met at a party–both cases which aren’t considered. These tools are warnings, limitations to the friendship: you have to read them as “He isn’t actually a friend: he’s quite lame to tell the truth, but I had to accept his friend-ing offer because. . .”

Just click Skip.

By: Why Facebook, why now? « Scobleizer

Why Facebook, why now? « Scobleizer — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:39:29 +0000

[...] Scott Rosenberg of Slate follows up with another point: that Facebook’s friends definitions are all messed up. [...]

By: Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:25:00 +0000

Oh I just say to all those questions that we hooked up, but it’s complicated. That way, if they are real friend,s they wil understand.

By: Colin Carmichael

Colin Carmichael — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:08:44 +0000

Facebook relationships are still essentially binary – friend/not friend. The ‘limited profile’ feature affords somewhat of a gray area in between but it’s, well, limited.
For Facebook to be really effective at reflecting offline relationships online, it needs to be able to understand how well I know someone. This might involve a few different types of relationships (friend, acquaintance, colleague, family) each with it’s own user-customizable level of privacy (a la the limited profile). Simply allowing users to create multiple limited profiles would probably do the trick.