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i dont want my network -optimizing- my social graph, and facebook has done this to a point where I need to supplement my social graph external to their product
by RobRivera 5y ago
i dont want my network -optimizing- my social graph, and facebook has done this to a point where I need to supplement my social graph external to their product since i simply have different communication profiles for different (equally important) nodes in my graph.
- mooreds 5y agoFacebook optimizes the content from the social graph to try to make the derived interest graph better. I would love if Facebook pruned my social graph. I still have a ton of FB friends from 2008-2010 when I joined FB and was active. But most of those people don't matter to my life much anymore. Why does FB think they do? Because they haven't pruned my graph based on my interactions. So FB becomes less useful to me. That said, I think any network with a monolithic graph (or incentives to have one) will run into the problem you outline (where you need to supplement the network with external tools/solutions).
- nitrogen 5y agoThe "circles" idea from Google Plus was actually pretty useful in theory. If instead of binary in/out pruning, a network suggested moving people between "circles," that might be better than just deleting people unprompted.
- mooreds 5y agoAgreed, circles was conceptually great, just too much work (IIRC) and a bit late to the social network game.