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I personally just don't like app invites. I don't use them, and I literally never pay attention to ones I get. That said, the clusters are really impressive. A
by patrickambron 14y ago
I personally just don't like app invites. I don't use them, and I literally never pay attention to ones I get.
That said, the clusters are really impressive. All of my clusters were basically just groups of people from different times/events of my life (highschool people/friends, college friends, colleagues, people I knew when I lived in Syracuse, etc). It's an obvious way to separate my groups of networks, and it was fast. That's useful in so many contexts
- deepkut 14y agoYes, I see what you mean regarding app invites. What if we were to identify your evangelists based on "cluster completion?" What I mean by this is that we'd look for clusters that go from being densely unregistered friend clusters to densely registered over time, and see which friend(s) were the catalyst(s).
- patrickambron 14y agoThat would definitely be interesting from a startup founder's perspective. From a purely consumer standpoint, I would use something like this to create my FB lists, if you made that easy. It's also useful when planning events. So, while I would personally never use it to send an app invite, I would use this if I was planning a party, and wanted to quickly see who I should invite and message, etc
- deepkut 14y agoInteresting. We actually thought about offering this as a tool to a company like Paperless Post to speed up their process. What do you think?
- rxl 14y agoYou're right, I feel like it can be useful in so many contexts. And I'm sure there is one application that will hit it out of the park. I just can't put my finger on it, though.
- deepkut 14y agoWhat about making clusters correspond to waves of enemies in a game? This would be an awesome text-based adventure game, yeah?
- maxko87 14y agoI don't know, I am a college student and I find myself getting the most event invitations from Facebook (that being said, it might change drastically in a work environment). Either way, awesome work Tony & co!
- deepkut 14y agoThank you! Do you view the invites you receive as complete spam? I guess it might depend on the size of your college, and how open the college is to parties, events, etc.
- patja 14y agoYou are not your user. App invites can be very effective among some user populations.