Thanks for your comment. I agree, collecting relationships should have a greater purpose than just amassing as many as possible as if “friends” are so many Pokemon cards. The MyBlogLog “Hot in My Communities” gets at this because that only really works if you’ve got a quality group of Communities that you are connected to. If you add a llot of Communities without thinking about what they’re linking to, your “Hot in My Communities” list gets less interesting.

I imagine a time when your social networks begin to serve as a collaborative filter and posted about this just this morning.

http://everwas.com/2007/08/fac.....s-out.html

Thanks for your comment. I agree, collecting relationships should have a greater purpose than just amassing as many as possible as if “friends” are so many Pokemon cards. The MyBlogLog “Hot in My Communities” gets at this because that only really works if you’ve got a quality group of Communities that you are connected to. If you add a llot of Communities without thinking about what they’re linking to, your “Hot in My Communities” list gets less interesting.

I imagine a time when your social networks begin to serve as a collaborative filter and posted about this just this morning.

http://everwas.com/2007/08/fac.....s-out.html

I am definitely not a soccer mom, and I do like the idea of making the internet ever more universal and easy to understand, but fundamentally I am skeptical of the whole community friend acquisition syndrome. (What is the sense in striving to have thousands of online friends? It is like counting stars! ) There needs to be more selectivity. Less is more.

If you think that the buzz words of the future are going to be stickability and engagement, what is the point in accessizing the massive amounts of what is tantamount to pointless drivel created by thousands of shallow friends saying “hi love your site” before flitting off to the next “in” social site.

Somehow you need to encourage users to slow down and build quality relationships. While a central profile would help, it would be more of the same, if it launches people off into a quagmire of info.

I am definitely not a soccer mom, and I do like the idea of making the internet ever more universal and easy to understand, but fundamentally I am skeptical of the whole community friend acquisition syndrome. (What is the sense in striving to have thousands of online friends? It is like counting stars! ) There needs to be more selectivity. Less is more.

If you think that the buzz words of the future are going to be stickability and engagement, what is the point in accessizing the massive amounts of what is tantamount to pointless drivel created by thousands of shallow friends saying “hi love your site” before flitting off to the next “in” social site.

Somehow you need to encourage users to slow down and build quality relationships. While a central profile would help, it would be more of the same, if it launches people off into a quagmire of info.