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I would love to have a social media platform where I can have multiple tiers of friends. Social Media "friends" and separately a circle of ACTUAL friends. You

I would love to have a social media platform where I can have multiple tiers of friends. Social Media "friends" and separately a circle of ACTUAL friends. You would get more access to the data shared by actual friends. The best part of it would be that unlike in a CRM I wouldn't have to keep this data up-to-date. My (actual) friends would update their own data, only. Everybody would need to only keep their own data which they want their actual friends to see up-to-date.

movedx 6y ago
> I would love to have a social media platform where I can have multiple tiers of friends. Social Media "friends" and separately a circle of ACTUAL friends. You would get more access to the data shared by actual friends. "Um, /u/galaxyLogic? Why aren't I in you "ACTUAL" friends list? Is there something you want to tell me? Are we not actually friends?" I see what you're trying to say - Facebook friends are often just random chumps you've met once, never or are distantly related to someone else you've met once - but I think a tiered system could quickly become something of burden on said friends :P
- rriepe 6y ago
  It was taxing even before this. Welcome to the site! Now choose who your real friends are.
- galaxyLogic 6y ago
  > Why aren't I in you "ACTUAL" friends list? I can see the point. Nobody wants to be perceived as rude. At the same time I think everybody understands that if we've never met in person we probably are not friends enough to exchange phone-numbers for instance.
neolog 6y ago
That was Google+
- chrismorgan 6y ago
  And they even called it circles.
  - mszcz 6y ago
    ...and it was an awesome idea. The execution and shoving it down users throats, not so much.
  - galaxyLogic 6y ago
    They had circles but I think all the circles were basically equal conceptually, just different people in them (?) What is needed is built-in support for the idea of "INNER CIRCLE". Those are the people with whom you are willing to share your phone-number with etc.
manigandham 6y ago
Facebook has this but not many people use it. Google+ also had a good implementation in "circles".

movedx 6y ago

> I would love to have a social media platform where I can have multiple tiers of friends. Social Media "friends" and separately a circle of ACTUAL friends. You would get more access to the data shared by actual friends. "Um, /u/galaxyLogic? Why aren't I in you "ACTUAL" friends list? Is there something you want to tell me? Are we not actually friends?" I see what you're trying to say - Facebook friends are often just random chumps you've met once, never or are distantly related to someone else you've met once - but I think a tiered system could quickly become something of burden on said friends :P

rriepe 6y ago
It was taxing even before this. Welcome to the site! Now choose who your real friends are.
galaxyLogic 6y ago
> Why aren't I in you "ACTUAL" friends list? I can see the point. Nobody wants to be perceived as rude. At the same time I think everybody understands that if we've never met in person we probably are not friends enough to exchange phone-numbers for instance.

neolog 6y ago

That was Google+

chrismorgan 6y ago
And they even called it circles.
- mszcz 6y ago
  ...and it was an awesome idea. The execution and shoving it down users throats, not so much.
- galaxyLogic 6y ago
  They had circles but I think all the circles were basically equal conceptually, just different people in them (?) What is needed is built-in support for the idea of "INNER CIRCLE". Those are the people with whom you are willing to share your phone-number with etc.

manigandham 6y ago

Facebook has this but not many people use it. Google+ also had a good implementation in "circles".