Social Networks

May 18th, 2008 by Florob | Posted in Jabber/XMPP, Life |

I just watched a very interesting video of the Panel “Die Zukunft der Social Networks” from the re:publica08 conference (MP4).

Here are some things I learned:

• social networking really is only a replacement for not being able to design/write a webpage yourself
• Facebook implements something like Privacy Lists and calls it Friend Lists
• There is something called MeinVZ. Which IMHO should be called YAVZ (Yet Another VZ)
• AsteriskVZ (as in StudiVZ, SchülerVZ and MeinVZ) really believe requiring registration to be able to see profiles is a protection (Yes they don’t claim it’s a very good one, but I think claiming it is one at all is bogus in the first place)
• I learned about myself that one of the real reasons I dislike Social Networks is that they have a bad user interface (and allow to make it worse (at least in MySpace case ))

Tags: jabber, MeinVZ, MySpace, oppinion, SchülerVZ, social networking, StudiVZ, XMPP

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