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Can the "two many friends" problem be solved with more powerful personal internal groups, or better named - contact labels? The problem is in the name "friend"
by Ygor 16y ago
Can the "two many friends" problem be solved with more powerful personal internal groups, or better named - contact labels?
The problem is in the name "friend". Most of our facebook-friends are actually just contacts. Only a subset of those contacts are your real friends. So, the problem is with the name of the concept, not the concept itself.
It would be pretty useful if facebook expanded on the concept of labeling contacts and thus making contact subgroups. Yes, putting friends in groups is already possible, but I feel it is highly underpowered. It should rank a lot higher in the whole user experience and the facebook core itself (separate walls, photos, easier management, easier viewing, easier control).
- user24 16y agoThe feature you're suggesting will only be used by the sort of people who like tagging and keywording and organising things. I.e. not facebook's users. I think facebook should automatically and invisibly group your friends for you - in fact they already do filter out some of your uninteresting contacts automatically, but I feel there's more work to be done on that area.
- uxp 16y agoFacebook already knows the likelyhood that Friend_A is closer to you socially than Friend_B based on the number of shared friends you have. Combine that with the frequency you "like" the posts and links of friends in that category, which signifies you pay attention to them, and you have an impressive dataset to dissect. I'm not saying it would be an easy task, but they already have enough data to build a reasonably accurate friend-group graph, at least for people that use it personally instead of an extension of business (marketers and lead generation). It could be just enough for people to use the service and have to clean up a dozen or less of their 300 friends which have been mis-categorized, instead of individually placing the 300 friends in a group.
- user24 16y agoyep. And it's not just explicit actions such as like; facebook records everything you click on[1], so every time you view one of Joe's photos, or view his profile, or even just hover over his status update for a few seconds, that could bring you a little closer to him in the friend space. This kind of thing probably already exists in facebook's internal labs, they're just waiting for their users to become ready for this kind of feature. [1] - http://www.gadgetell.com/tech/comment/facebook-employee-claims-they-record-everything-you-do-and-can-read-your-me/ http://www.gadgetell.com/tech/comment/facebook-employee-clai...