4 ms·
Filtering IS a pain point if you have very different audiences amongst your facebook 'friends', like real friends vs co-workers vs parents. Not having filtering
by tborthwick 15y ago
Filtering IS a pain point if you have very different audiences amongst your facebook 'friends', like real friends vs co-workers vs parents. Not having filtering may prevent you from making a personal post that would be funny to your friends but crude to others. The author asks how many people want fewer readers of their posts, but for non-technical users, number of readers isn't a concern at all. Publishing something embarrassing then remembering your grandmother is now a friend, on the other hand, is an annoying concern.
There's still a question, though, of whether people will think it's worth the effort to categorize all their contacts. I'm not sure how many will bother.
- DennisP 15y agoIf Google+ said "here's your list of several hundred contacts, now categorize them" I would never get around to it. But what they mainly present me with is three contacts at a time, always visible, and it just takes a couple clicks to categorize one. Then I get to see who pops up next. Every time I go on g+ I do a few of them without really thinking about it. And if you saw my hard disk you'd see I'm not much for organizing at all, generally.
- Hisoka 15y agoIt's a pain point if you have 1000 of friends. Right now, that's not the case if you use Google+. So Google+ solves a pain point only if they have traction, but if their main selling point is solving filtering.. then traction will be hard to get. It's a chicken and egg problem. It's like investing your money. It's pointless to even talk about it if you're in debt. Get out of debt first, then worry about investing.