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"why I know them" is a crucial feature missing from many services (along with "what name or alias I know them under"). I have hundreds of contacts from church,

"why I know them" is a crucial feature missing from many services (along with "what name or alias I know them under"). I have hundreds of contacts from church, school, work, video games, etc.

Pxtl 12y ago
Sounds like google's circles. The problem is that most folks treat their Gmail account as their "real" account and don't give it out willy-nilly. Also, that the circles thing is one-way - I can use circles to control how I see others, but can't use them to control how they see me.
- notatoad 12y ago
  which is good. i don't want some guy i met at a work thing once adding himself to my best friends circle.
- wdewind 12y ago
  > Also, that the circles thing is one-way - I can use circles to control how I see others, but can't use them to control how they see me. No, if you share something to a circle someone isn't in they wont see it, so they do let you control how others see you. Not a huge G+ fan, but I was a fan of circles.
  - Pxtl 12y ago
    I mean having a fully different profile and name, not just different posts.
- msh 12y ago
  I was not that big fan of circles, made sharing with the wrong people easy. I like that my personal life (facebook) and professional (linkedin) is two different networks. Its hard to accidentally share the the bad joke with my professional network.
  - lotharbot 12y ago
    I think something like circles could be done right -- if each circle had a custom background, etc. so that it looked and felt like a different website. I'm not worried about posting political rants to LinkedIn because it's obvious I'm on LinkedIn rather than FaceBook or Google+; I wouldn't be worried about posting to my coworkers group if there were very obvious signifiers that I was in that group.
lsc 12y ago
yeah. Linkedin needs to implement this. Just a way to add notes that are only view-able to me would solve the problem.
- travem 12y ago
  On the profile page of your contact there is a "★ Relationship" button. Click that and it will let you add general notes or more detailed information about how you met.
  - lotharbot 12y ago
    who is that information viewable by? I don't want to put in "obnoxious guy from conference" and then have that person be able to read it.
    - travem 12y ago
      According to the LinkedIn help center [1]: "Your note will be visible in the Relationship section of the profile and will only be visible to you." Of course you may wish to store such information in a different system to avoid the possibility of LinkedIn inadvertently leaking the data. [1] https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/43370/kw/Who+can+see+notes%3F https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/43370/kw/W...
      - weavie 12y ago
        Would you trust them enough to be certain enough that it would always stay this way so you could safely put slanderous information about a person here? I certainly wouldn't.
    - lsc 12y ago
      Yeah, something that stores the data in a system I control and then pastes it on to the page with a greasemonkey script would be optimal. But, then that would be work.
obeattie 12y ago
IIRC, Facebook used to have this feature (ages ago), but it was removed. It used to ask where you knew someone from when sending a friend request, and it didn't let you send the request if you didn't know the person.
- lmm 12y ago
  In the early days it allowed "I don't even know this person" as a reason.
- deleted 12y ago
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"why I know them" is a crucial feature missing from many services (along with "what name or alias I know them under"). I have hundreds of contacts from church, school, work, video games, etc.

Pxtl 12y ago

Sounds like google's circles. The problem is that most folks treat their Gmail account as their "real" account and don't give it out willy-nilly. Also, that the circles thing is one-way - I can use circles to control how I see others, but can't use them to control how they see me.

notatoad 12y ago
which is good. i don't want some guy i met at a work thing once adding himself to my best friends circle.
wdewind 12y ago
> Also, that the circles thing is one-way - I can use circles to control how I see others, but can't use them to control how they see me. No, if you share something to a circle someone isn't in they wont see it, so they do let you control how others see you. Not a huge G+ fan, but I was a fan of circles.
- Pxtl 12y ago
  I mean having a fully different profile and name, not just different posts.
msh 12y ago
I was not that big fan of circles, made sharing with the wrong people easy. I like that my personal life (facebook) and professional (linkedin) is two different networks. Its hard to accidentally share the the bad joke with my professional network.
- lotharbot 12y ago
  I think something like circles could be done right -- if each circle had a custom background, etc. so that it looked and felt like a different website. I'm not worried about posting political rants to LinkedIn because it's obvious I'm on LinkedIn rather than FaceBook or Google+; I wouldn't be worried about posting to my coworkers group if there were very obvious signifiers that I was in that group.

lsc 12y ago

yeah. Linkedin needs to implement this. Just a way to add notes that are only view-able to me would solve the problem.

travem 12y ago
On the profile page of your contact there is a "★ Relationship" button. Click that and it will let you add general notes or more detailed information about how you met.
- lotharbot 12y ago
  who is that information viewable by? I don't want to put in "obnoxious guy from conference" and then have that person be able to read it.
  - travem 12y ago
    According to the LinkedIn help center [1]: "Your note will be visible in the Relationship section of the profile and will only be visible to you." Of course you may wish to store such information in a different system to avoid the possibility of LinkedIn inadvertently leaking the data. [1] https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/43370/kw/Who+can+see+notes%3F https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/43370/kw/W...
    - weavie 12y ago
      Would you trust them enough to be certain enough that it would always stay this way so you could safely put slanderous information about a person here? I certainly wouldn't.
  - lsc 12y ago
    Yeah, something that stores the data in a system I control and then pastes it on to the page with a greasemonkey script would be optimal. But, then that would be work.

obeattie 12y ago

IIRC, Facebook used to have this feature (ages ago), but it was removed. It used to ask where you knew someone from when sending a friend request, and it didn't let you send the request if you didn't know the person.

lmm 12y ago
In the early days it allowed "I don't even know this person" as a reason.
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