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Personally, I hope (and I think I'm not alone here) that on a network like scuttlebutt, there will be much less "noise" than on facebook. My timeline on faceboo
by black_puppydog 9y ago
Personally, I hope (and I think I'm not alone here) that on a network like scuttlebutt, there will be much less "noise" than on facebook.
My timeline on facebook (whenever I check it, like weekly) is a mishmash of...
* ads (if using a browser that doesn't get rid of them)
* "you missed someone's birthday who you didn't even remember you were "friends" with
* look at this really popular post in your social vicinity, ENGAGE!!!
* cat/dog/food pictures
* politics of the same kind I had to ignore as a teenager, back then by mail. Sign $petition here!
* the occasional thing I give a flying fk about
This is not accidental. It is what facebook is built to do: keep you on their page, engaged.
Scuttlebutt and such don't have that incentive. Liking "Pizza" or "Justing Bieber" doesn't exist. You can like a specific post, but that's not the same as putting your entire preferences on there. The possibility to digitally model your entire family and social graph and all your preferences in the open doesn't exist, simply because... why would someone implement that? And why would they then gear the UI to reward you for doing that?
And it's not as inherently in danger of becoming an across-sites profile kept by a single entity.
- rock_hard 9y agoBut if users don’t stay engaged then how would they retain? And if they don’t retain...how would it be useful to anyone when none of their friends are on it?
- gregknicholson 9y agoIt's possible for people to be engaged because their friends are interesting; rather than because the service is designed to grab attention.
- mkarnicki 9y agoI would upvote this more than once if I could. This is the most important argument for "reason of engagement" as it should be.
- rock_hard 9y agoBut how the tool they use to do so is designed matters! If there is too much friction then people simply won't adopt it
- strypey 9y agoYes, UX matters, especially when you are a new platform trying to establish your initial user base. But nothing matters in social software as much as network effect; people want to be where their friends are (and/or where people they want to follow or be noticed by are). Like any social network, Scuttlebutt will grow from the edges, as people already using it onboard their friends and family members. (I had more to say about this but I posted the longer version on Diaspora instead.)
- spacehome 9y ago> cat/dog/food pictures I know you must be high school or college aged, because you didn't mention baby photos. Watch out. That's going to take over your feed in a couple years.
- black_puppydog 9y agoyou guessed wrong. but those I could live with ;)
- spacehome 9y agoMind sharing how you manage to not see tons of baby photos shared by your contacts?