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I can see people abusing this by saying they have a crush on everyone on their friend list, just to see if anything sticks.

by hasenj 16y ago

jiganti 16y ago
There is a limit to the amount of people you can crush, it's set now at 20. Thoughts on this number?
- hasenj 16y ago
  I don't know, 20 seems rather high. Maybe 3?
  - pinksoda 16y ago
    It has to be a number that works for social butterflies too. "Crushing" means something different to everyone; friendship, dating, hookup, marriage, etc. People also change their 'crushes' at different rates depending on their lifestyle and personality.
pinksoda 16y ago
The 4 options deter this. You can crush 20 people to see if it sticks, but there's no guarantee you are ever even told. There is also a delay in the crushing so you don't know how often we look for mutual crushes so you never know when to change the 20(max limit) you already have.
- hasenj 16y ago
  Doesn't matter. If the other person gets a message then it has already stuck. Plus, think long term: if people feel that this service can be abused, then they're not gonna trust it very much. "Oh, it says this girls has a crush on me, but I wonder if she really does? or was she just fooling around with the app?"
  - jiganti 16y ago
    People will eventually trust it based on how often others "fool around" with the app. I don't see any great reason to input fake crushes, so I'm not anticipating this being a huge problem, but I could be wrong. Previous services emailed you anonymously when someone else had input your email, which was the way they admitted to being interested in you. However this just made people curious as to who was crushing them, so they input a number of random friends' emails haphazardly. Those friends did the same. This system promoted curiosity, which demoted sincerity and eventually the sites just ended up with a big email list. Since facebook will give people a good idea of who's using the app, we're hoping that this medium will be adequate, without the use of anonymous emails.

I can see people abusing this by saying they have a crush on everyone on their friend list, just to see if anything sticks.

by hasenj 16y ago

I can see people abusing this by saying they have a crush on everyone on their friend list, just to see if anything sticks.

jiganti 16y ago

There is a limit to the amount of people you can crush, it's set now at 20. Thoughts on this number?

hasenj 16y ago
I don't know, 20 seems rather high. Maybe 3?
- pinksoda 16y ago
  It has to be a number that works for social butterflies too. "Crushing" means something different to everyone; friendship, dating, hookup, marriage, etc. People also change their 'crushes' at different rates depending on their lifestyle and personality.

pinksoda 16y ago

The 4 options deter this. You can crush 20 people to see if it sticks, but there's no guarantee you are ever even told. There is also a delay in the crushing so you don't know how often we look for mutual crushes so you never know when to change the 20(max limit) you already have.

hasenj 16y ago
Doesn't matter. If the other person gets a message then it has already stuck. Plus, think long term: if people feel that this service can be abused, then they're not gonna trust it very much. "Oh, it says this girls has a crush on me, but I wonder if she really does? or was she just fooling around with the app?"
- jiganti 16y ago
  People will eventually trust it based on how often others "fool around" with the app. I don't see any great reason to input fake crushes, so I'm not anticipating this being a huge problem, but I could be wrong. Previous services emailed you anonymously when someone else had input your email, which was the way they admitted to being interested in you. However this just made people curious as to who was crushing them, so they input a number of random friends' emails haphazardly. Those friends did the same. This system promoted curiosity, which demoted sincerity and eventually the sites just ended up with a big email list. Since facebook will give people a good idea of who's using the app, we're hoping that this medium will be adequate, without the use of anonymous emails.