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This is just the beginning... I bet we'll soon see Facebook's own "Circles" feature. As I wrote two days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2707775 http
by eneveu 15y ago
This is just the beginning... I bet we'll soon see Facebook's own "Circles" feature.
As I wrote two days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2707775 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2707775 ), Paul Adams, previously social research lead in the Google UX team, left Google for Facebook in December: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/20/paul-adams-googler-whose-presentation-foretold-facebook-groups-heads-to-facebook/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/20/paul-adams-googler-whose-pr...
- kin 15y agoThere's already group chat and groups. It's a nestled feature but it's there.
- eneveu 15y agoFacebook indeed has similar features. But we should not simply compare features when comparing social platforms. Philippe Beaudoin made a very insightful post about this: "For a social platform, the implication of turning a feature into a core part of the user experience cannot be overstated. It's because the real feature of social platforms are the way its user base exploits it. If only a few users rely on friends lists as a filtering feature, the feature might as well not be there. But G+ says: "Hey! Welcome! The first thing you should do is setup some filters!" Add a few thousand users and the bandwagon effect will turn G+ into a much different place than Facebook." https://plus.google.com/107988469357342173268/posts/eHccmEr4oW1 https://plus.google.com/107988469357342173268/posts/eHccmEr4...
- ignifero 15y agoFacebook will probably soon cover the distance to google+, one way or another. The question is, is that enought to stop people (esp. early adopters) from using google+? The thing about facebook is it has become bloated, while google+ looks pure and clean. Similar to what happened to myspace.