Comments on: Friend Decay: Social Networks need passive un-friending

By: Paul Salamone

Paul Salamone — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Definitely! And I would add that if one is going to build such a “passive decay” friendship system, that it allow the user to define for themselves what that decay looks like, rather than normalizing it. For some, 3 days with no contact = end of friendship. For others, three years.

But then this begs another question: why have a social network site it all? If it requires constant maintenance to keep one’s network afloat, how is it any different than exchanging emails with fellow bloggers? This, I think, is why LinkedIn is such a good idea: it’s a network of contacts, not friends. Once you build that online rolodex, you need not click and poke around to maintain it.

Definitely a great idea overall though, nice post. Again.

By: jason

jason — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

right on man, something like this needs to be implemented.

By: Brett Borders

Brett Borders — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

It’s easier to tell who your friends are on story voting sites than on social profile sites.

I found out who my “real” friends were on Digg when they changed up the interface back in September. They tweaked things so that it requires a lot more time and mouse clicks to vote on stories from your friends list, making it more difficult for the various Digg crews to do automatic reciprocal voting. The people who actually enjoyed my content have kept voting on it, and the friends of convenience have mostly faded way.

I occasionally prune my friends list on social sites to exclude people who have drifted away, people whose values have changed from mine, people whose blogs or tweets get on my nerves, and people who no longer participate.

But yes, I like really your idea and I think that building a more intelligent “passive friendship decay” and more intelligent “People You Have Things in Common With” algorithms could make the social media experience a lot more fluid, organic and …legit.

By: stan

stan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

A further note:
The problem of trusted sources in a pure RDF Semantic Web model was addressed in 2004 by Nobuhisa Shiraishi. See his slideshow on “The RDF Trust Model using RDF bookmark and its Application”/

By: ffxi gil

ffxi gil — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

It’s an interesting concept, renewal by interaction, and hopefully something they will explore further. How that impacts the existing infrastructure, however, I’m not sure.

Either way, enjoyable read.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The practical demonstration through the facts is that, even being able to argue that the mechanisms that are in Facebook aims to develop an embryonic stage, advertising when we receive walk by this social network is pure rotation general completely generic, lacking context, for anything based on personalized information or preferences of any kind, and with potential for conversion close to absolute zero. If you sell through metric CPC (cost per click), you will come across some very low clickthrough ratios, because users are not going to Facebook in search mode, but to socialize and display information about their friends, acquaintances and contacts. What remains, clearly, is what we all know: CPM (cost per thousand impressions), with a price much lower and metric well known long ago. To not insignificant, but unable to justify the unjustifiable: an assessment of Facebook as that discussed lately. Yes, things are worth what someone is not mentally alienated willing to pay for them, but from there to fifteen billion dollars justified by the alleged advertising revenues, goes a step very, very long. I like Facebook, use it, I think it has established new and interesting ways to compete with models based on openness, but neither has become (as it actually happened to me with other services) in an important part of my life online, or I feel much less an alleged valuation based on the amount that a third party with an interest very different from the acquisition, to ensure the exclusivity of a contract advertising, it could pay for a small percentage of the company.

Bye

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