Comments on: Fun With Friends

By: Tony Arcieri

Tony Arcieri — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:17:53 +0000

I'm sure you've seen this by now but Brad Fitzpatrick had an excellent post on building a unified, decentralized social graph: http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/

By: Cliff H

Cliff H — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:09:34 +0000

There must now be a ton of free auto-friend-invite tools for Facebook and LinkedIn out there now – my friend invites for people I don’t know have gone through the roof lately!

By: Art

Art — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:48:23 +0000

Why is it that people will eagerly provide their friends’ personal information to a third party online system with a “can be changed at any time” privacy policy, but would never consider handing it over to someone over the phone?

It’s just as invasive (actually more so) and inconsiderate.

You’ve just given 3000+ email (and postal?) addresses to facebook that they can store and sell when they go under or get sold. And all they have to do is alter their privacy policy and post it on their web site.

Go figure.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:51:22 +0000

Looks like about 50 new friends in the last 12 hours from the 325 invites. Pretty high hit rate for a Saturday afternoon / night.

By: Graeme Thickins

Graeme Thickins — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:59:55 +0000

Brad, in four weeks of Facebook, I’m up to as many friends it took me four years to get to on LinkedIn. There’s a reason….it’s FUN!

By: Graeme Foster

Graeme Foster — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:00:27 +0000

Thanks for the invite, but I’ll decline I’m afraid

By: tobias

tobias — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:12:26 +0000

hey Brad, if your main contacts weren’t in outlook, but lived in gmail, aol, hotmail or yahoo mail, then upscoop.com can give you similar fun – across all (many) social networks. who knew I had so many friends in bebo, for example. fascinating.