Comments on: My Facebook "friends" aren't my friends http://jonathanmelhuish.com/2008/05/my-facebook-friends-arent-my-friends/ Solving Climate Change through User Experience Design Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:43:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: A Minnow on a Mission » Blog Archive » Building a better social news browser http://jonathanmelhuish.com/2008/05/my-facebook-friends-arent-my-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-203 A Minnow on a Mission » Blog Archive » Building a better social news browser Sat, 03 May 2008 21:55:28 +0000 http://orangejon.com/blog/?p=69#comment-203 [...] we identified that online social networks don’t make it easy to find the news that interests you, and we [...] [...] we identified that online social networks don’t make it easy to find the news that interests you, and we [...]

]]> By: A Minnow on a Mission » Blog Archive » Putting friends in boxes http://jonathanmelhuish.com/2008/05/my-facebook-friends-arent-my-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-202 A Minnow on a Mission » Blog Archive » Putting friends in boxes Fri, 02 May 2008 19:25:53 +0000 http://orangejon.com/blog/?p=69#comment-202 [...] A Minnow on a Mission one man’s bid to change the world « My Facebook “friends” aren’t my friends [...] [...] A Minnow on a Mission one man’s bid to change the world « My Facebook “friends” aren’t my friends [...]

]]> By: Orange Jon http://jonathanmelhuish.com/2008/05/my-facebook-friends-arent-my-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-201 Orange Jon Fri, 02 May 2008 16:36:59 +0000 http://orangejon.com/blog/?p=69#comment-201 Facebook actually collects even more detailed information than that about how you met somebody, but then doesn't seem to do anything particularly useful with it. Of course, how you met somebody doesn't dictate your level of interest in them, but I think it's related. I'll try to explain that in my next post. Facebook actually collects even more detailed information than that about how you met somebody, but then doesn’t seem to do anything particularly useful with it. Of course, how you met somebody doesn’t dictate your level of interest in them, but I think it’s related. I’ll try to explain that in my next post.

]]> By: Ben Francis http://jonathanmelhuish.com/2008/05/my-facebook-friends-arent-my-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Ben Francis Fri, 02 May 2008 16:21:29 +0000 http://orangejon.com/blog/?p=69#comment-200 Regarding the "gross over-simplification of social structure into a binary 'friend' or 'not friend'" I think it is interesting to note that XFN (http://www.gmpg.org/xfn/) attempts a more granular distinction between different types of friends. Ben Regarding the “gross over-simplification of social structure into a binary ‘friend’ or ‘not friend’” I think it is interesting to note that XFN (http://www.gmpg.org/xfn/) attempts a more granular distinction between different types of friends.

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