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Watching traffic live now. It seems many people drop out at How It Works. Anyone care to share some insights as to why?
by chewxy 14y ago
Watching traffic live now. It seems many people drop out at How It Works. Anyone care to share some insights as to why?
- ohyes 14y agoI was hoping for another way to sign in. I killed my Facebook account a couple weeks ago and would rather not reactivate. Also 'strangers for dinner' makes me think of cannibalism. Not something I particularly want to be thinking about when getting the opportunity to meet new people in my own home. It also doesn't seem particularly safe.
- chewxy 14y agoI've always felt dark humour works. :P As for safety, we've actually fretted over it for a few weeks before finally writing it. Facebook as it turns out, can be quite useful in terms of safety. We've put in place a system where we will work with authorities should security and safety be an issue (for example, if someone gets robbed). This is where we figured Facebook information would be quite useful. It's a debate we constantly have internally though, and we aren't quite clear about how far is too far yet
- basicallydan 14y agoYeah, Facebook does make it quite safe. Personally, and I know that this is a bit silly, but the thought of all my actual Facebook friends seeing that I have signed up to this put me off at first. Then I was like "fuck it, I'm curious!" - but it doesn't mean that others will come to the same conclusion. It's similar to announcing on Facebook that you've just signed up to a dating site. Lots of people do it these days, even talk about it quite a lot, but it's not something you'd make a status update about.
- chewxy 14y agoNope, your friends won't know about it. Facebook is used for authentication and verification only.
- basicallydan 14y agoGreat!
- jonhendry 14y agoI am reminded of the IT Crowd episode, "Moss and the German".
- digitalsushi 14y agoI think that we each have our preferences for safety and our own internal model of how we perceive the world to work. Roughly to me this is a matter of initial expectations of other people - do you consider people good or evil by default, is trust earned or given? And certainly we evolve these stages as we age. My trusting nature toward strangers in my home might close if I have a child to protect, for example. But, thinking of a website where people literally sign up to consume each other is not my first inclination at the website's name. As with the roughly equivalent 'friends for dinner', my first notion was exactly what the site intends to deliver.
- ictoan 14y agoWas just thinking of that... I think 'Dinner With Strangers' would work better grammatically.
- r4vik 14y agobecause I don't want to sign in with facebook.
- epaga 14y agoKilled my facebook account a half a year ago, so FB-required is a no-go for me. It's amazing how many new sites are requiring FB. But at least yours makes sense why you'd want to.
- lhnz 14y agoTwo lists that are almost identical but with small differences. I can't be bothered to diff it. Then there is also a legend with some esoteric symbols. How simple can you make this?
- skheme 14y agoI have no need for the service, was just curious about the details.
- drdoooom 14y agoI just wanted to know how it works. I don't think I have the courage to meet completely random people though. Oh, and there's a whole bunch of periods missing (sorry).
- floriancargoet 14y agoGreat idea, I'd really like to try it, join or host a dinner in Paris but I don't have a Facebook account and don't want to create one.
- Baba_Chaghaloo 14y agoThe Facebook login. Come on now.
- fauigerzigerk 14y agoGreat idea, but I would never use Facebook to log into anything.
- AndrewDucker 14y agoI don't sign into things with Facebook. I don't trust them, I don't trust what information is passed back and forth, and I can't access it from work (so I can't currently sign in, even if I wanted to).
- apricot13 14y agoIt sounded great, wanted to find other ways to sign up as I don't use facebook.