4 ms·

It turns out being connected with good friends/family is a lot more enjoyable than being connected with every random person you had a university course with onc

It turns out being connected with good friends/family is a lot more enjoyable than being connected with every random person you had a university course with once. Facebook is going to be your rolodex (A "facebook" even! good name for it) and then there's going to be a heavily segmented private social network for your friends / families to connect and share photos. Figuring out how to make that happen with limited / minor work for the user is the challenge.

messo 7y ago
I set up my personal rolodex as an alternative to Facebook. It's called Monica, and can be self-hosted: https://www.monicahq.com/ https://www.monicahq.com/
- diminoten 7y ago
  How do you get people to update their info without your intervention?
- zrobotics 7y ago
  From your TOS: "You must only use the site to do things that are widely accepted as morally good." [0] I'm sorry, but WTF does this even mean? That's so incredibly vague that I tend to read it as "essentially, nearly anything could be a TOS violation". For instance, if I log a call with "He was in a bitchy mood and was being an asshole", that is a TOS violation, since calling someone an asshole is widely considered unkind. [0] https://www.monicahq.com/terms https://www.monicahq.com/terms
  - TeMPOraL 7y ago
    I don't think surface kindness done or not done privately qualifies as a moral concern.
asdff 7y ago
I started using groupme in 2014 in college and it's the de facto standard for group chats now, at least where I went to school (45k undergrads). The barrier to create a new groupchat is low and it pulls people from your contacts, so it was easy to set one up for a class, your roommates, your dorm, your floor, your fraternity, your pledge class, your fraternity and a sorority, your extra curriculars and intramurals, your friends from highschool, the people you work with, and an assortment of niche interests with people from those groups (I have one for xbox live, game of thrones, sports talk, people who are in town, people who aren't in town, people who want to play pickup sports, making a groupme for a 1 off event planning, etc). It's a great platform and it's already spread like wildfire among my peers, at least.

messo 7y ago

I set up my personal rolodex as an alternative to Facebook. It's called Monica, and can be self-hosted: https://www.monicahq.com/ https://www.monicahq.com/

diminoten 7y ago
How do you get people to update their info without your intervention?
zrobotics 7y ago
From your TOS: "You must only use the site to do things that are widely accepted as morally good." [0] I'm sorry, but WTF does this even mean? That's so incredibly vague that I tend to read it as "essentially, nearly anything could be a TOS violation". For instance, if I log a call with "He was in a bitchy mood and was being an asshole", that is a TOS violation, since calling someone an asshole is widely considered unkind. [0] https://www.monicahq.com/terms https://www.monicahq.com/terms
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  I don't think surface kindness done or not done privately qualifies as a moral concern.

asdff 7y ago

I started using groupme in 2014 in college and it's the de facto standard for group chats now, at least where I went to school (45k undergrads). The barrier to create a new groupchat is low and it pulls people from your contacts, so it was easy to set one up for a class, your roommates, your dorm, your floor, your fraternity, your pledge class, your fraternity and a sorority, your extra curriculars and intramurals, your friends from highschool, the people you work with, and an assortment of niche interests with people from those groups (I have one for xbox live, game of thrones, sports talk, people who are in town, people who aren't in town, people who want to play pickup sports, making a groupme for a 1 off event planning, etc). It's a great platform and it's already spread like wildfire among my peers, at least.