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I think Diaspora and others will fail because it is tackling the problem from the wrong angle. I don't think people really want to micromanage things like that
by dstein 16y ago
I think Diaspora and others will fail because it is tackling the problem from the wrong angle.
I don't think people really want to micromanage things like that. Think about it. Every time you post a tweet, picture, blog post etc, do you want to meticulously decide who receives it, or would you rather click "all" and let everyone else decide whether they read/view it? Conceivably all facebook needs to do is tweak how you recieve messages a bit and these startups are toast.
You can't defeat Facebook by adding one little feature Facebook doesn't have. You need to come up with a completely paradigm-shifting approach.
- waxman 16y agoI agree with you that people don't want to micromanage (the means) but I do think people want to segment their social sharing (the ends). I think the trick will be to figure out an interface where you can share this way, without it feeling like a pain/micromanaging, etc., and I think this will require a paradigm shift. Any solution that is, essentially, a "facebook tweak" (whether it's by facebook themselves or diaspora, or whoever) will always be cumbersome. I think to solve this problem a new paradigm is required, one that replaces the ultimately inaccurate social metaphors of facebook (friend requests, wall posts, news feed, status updates, private inbox messages), with a totally new approach that comes at these problems in a different way (for instance, a unified feed with messages organized by group, as a replacement to all of the features listed above).