Comments on: Inverse Social Network http://avichal.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/inverse-social-network/ Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:13:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Sunny http://avichal.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/inverse-social-network/#comment-1176 Sunny Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:13:39 +0000 http://avichal.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/inverse-social-network/#comment-1176 A "Stickies" like app for facebook should do the trick for jotting down the extra info about your contact that you'd like to store. A “Stickies” like app for facebook should do the trick for jotting down the extra info about your contact that you’d like to store.

]]> By: avichal http://avichal.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/inverse-social-network/#comment-1152 avichal Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:40:01 +0000 http://avichal.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/inverse-social-network/#comment-1152 Dan, I agree you need this sharing aspect and I think it should be in there. As I point out in the post, the fact your boss doesn't want your friends to know his kid's name matters but it only half matters because it's something that you can already do via an email or on the phone. The reason it only half matters is because if it's sensitive information that he didn't want people to know, just like in non-inverse social network communication, if you're the one that let people know this information and he finds out then you lose his trust. So, for example, I wouldn't share that information with the whole world, but I would share it with my spouse. In either case, sharing or not, I think the base feature of tagging and storing information about a person on top of their social network profile is something I'd love to have in LinkedIn or as a browser plugin...I might even pay for it if the user interface were clean enough to make it unobtrusive. Dan,

I agree you need this sharing aspect and I think it should be in there. As I point out in the post, the fact your boss doesn’t want your friends to know his kid’s name matters but it only half matters because it’s something that you can already do via an email or on the phone. The reason it only half matters is because if it’s sensitive information that he didn’t want people to know, just like in non-inverse social network communication, if you’re the one that let people know this information and he finds out then you lose his trust.

So, for example, I wouldn’t share that information with the whole world, but I would share it with my spouse.

In either case, sharing or not, I think the base feature of tagging and storing information about a person on top of their social network profile is something I’d love to have in LinkedIn or as a browser plugin…I might even pay for it if the user interface were clean enough to make it unobtrusive.

]]> By: Dan Caragea http://avichal.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/inverse-social-network/#comment-1151 Dan Caragea Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:18:17 +0000 http://avichal.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/inverse-social-network/#comment-1151 Problem with this approach is that you don't know what the other person want you to share about him/her. Maybe you know that your boss's kid name is Joe but maybe he doesn't want your other friends to know this fact. And without the sharing part you can't call this a sns. Problem with this approach is that you don’t know what the other person want you to share about him/her. Maybe you know that your boss’s kid name is Joe but maybe he doesn’t want your other friends to know this fact.
And without the sharing part you can’t call this a sns.

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