William Shoap
Posted in Component Development 4 years ago
On the search page, how easy or hard is it to list a persons mutual friends count next to the “Add Friend” button and also on the profile page? Having this may encourage a person to add another person as a friend if they have enough friends in common.
Michael Zülsdorff
Replied 4 years ago
If OSSN is to compete with the “big boys” (as it claims it can on the front page of this site)
Oh ... must have missed that. What URL are you talking about?
William Shoap
Replied 4 years ago
Facebook does it for a reason. It may not be your method of selecting friends but it does appeal to herd mentality. Facebook figured this out a while ago and uses it to increase site activity in the form of relationship building. If OSSN is to compete with the “big boys” (as it claims it can on the front page of this site) it must do some of what made the big boys successful and meet some of those expectations.
Michael Zülsdorff
Replied 4 years ago
This may look nice at first sight, but where is the true impact on your decision?
Just one real world example:
Not too long ago I registered at Phil's community and almost instantly got 3 friend requests. For whatever reason. These members don't know me, I don't know them. But they wanted to be my 'friends'. Okay, so I confirmed. And that was that. It didn't trigger any communication or any other kind of 'getting closer'. It is literally just database relationships.
And judge people on that basis? Not my way.
Philip Lozier
Replied 4 years ago
It influences my decision on other social sites. Would be a good add.
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