Social Graph Design
The medium is the message. This page is about how the decisions we make about social graph and network design impact behavior.
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Social Graph Design
Twitter became about arguing, Instagram became about showing off, Facebook became about people you went to school with saying weird things.
The most important role in a social network is the vibe designer, because the big questions are sociological, not technological.
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FB’s has an interface problem, not an algorithm problem… because people won’t affirmatively click on the things they actually deep down want to watch
Something for decentralized social graph protocols to consider:
Social connections are not homogeneous, but instead differ in their degree of:
- intensity/affinity
- context
- duration
- velocity
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