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Social media jumbles all our social circles together, where we used to keep them separate by physical location. Every application seems to assume I have one li
by Dove 17y ago
Social media jumbles all our social circles together, where we used to keep them separate by physical location. Every application seems to assume I have one list of friends. In reality, I have friends among gaming contacts, friends among political junkies, friends from work, friends from the internet, friends from college, friends from church, friends from my old apartment building. They may have nothing in common with each other, and indeed may indeed be offended by mutually exclusive behaviors on my part. Interacting with all of them at once is awkward at best.
Perhaps an ability to organize and tag friends (and posts) by circle would help.
- lehrblogger 17y agoI've been thinking a lot about how tags might be used to organize friends/contacts. Ideally I'd have a way to tag everyone I knew, perform basic set operations with the tags, and then synchronize the resulting lists with a variety of social websites. So I could be "friends" on a new site with, say, my 'friends among political junkies' and 'friends from college' but none of my 'friends from work' who were not also 'close friends'.