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Obtaining your list of friends is not the factor that makes switching social networks unattractive, it is the friends themselves. The list doesn't help if your
by davidcbc 8y ago
Obtaining your list of friends is not the factor that makes switching social networks unattractive, it is the friends themselves.
The list doesn't help if your friends aren't on the other network. HN loves to come up with technical solutions to the problem of Facebook when it largely isn't a technical problem, it is a social one.
- ISL 8y agoIt makes a huge difference whether you can pre-populate a new network with a list of your friends, as it makes your friends' discovery possible. Imagine, which Google+ launched, how things might have gone if 5% of Facebook users could have moved their own social graphs to G+ with two clicks of a mouse. If everyone had 100 friends, and those friends were uniformly distributed (all stark simplifying assumptions), then a huge fraction of the global social graph could have been moved to the new network by a small fraction of the users.