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What you described is exactly what WeChat is able to do and doing well. It has a half billion users (including every Chinese I know) yet comes with no social ba
by ohw 11y ago
What you described is exactly what WeChat is able to do and doing well. It has a half billion users (including every Chinese I know) yet comes with no social baggage. If you don't like the social features (called Moments) you can turn it off, or simply use WeChat as an IM and hardly notice the existence of all the other features (there are not many anyway)
So your enriched version of address book does exist, but only in China, and it is one of the few things I miss so much when living outside China.
- ajkjk 11y agoInteresting. I've never even heard of it. Any perspective on why it hasn't caught on elsewhere? (besides just our not hearing of it?) Though, I guess, as a tech person, I have the additional preference that whatever I use be fairly open (open-source somehow if possible) and not liable to doing things like selling user data or onboarding corporate partnerships in an attempt to monetize. Even though I know how silly it is to ask for an amazing product for free with no mechanism for generating revenue and a promise not to try to come up with one. Actually, I think I would pay for such a thing. Actually, I know of Diaspora and Ello having tried this in some capacity, but neither caught on for various reasons.