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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>Hi
Everybody,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>There are a lot of
smart people within the project and they have years of experience of using
software and social networking sites. The thing that appealed to me about this
project was that a) you get hardware like a consumer appliance b) you use
existing software. I FreedomBox should be developed to the current best
standards, but doing so with a privacy first context.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>I would imagine the
FBX will had a web front-end and prefer the more Facebook/Plaxo Corporate
Cool UI. I have seen many social networking sites that have added bling which
looks cool initially but becomes jagged quite quickly, forcing the sites in a
never-ending bling upgrade cycle. IMHO, FBX should keep the UI simple,
but offer FBX users the option to upgrade their web-front end "theme" through
CSS etc.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>Overtime in the
social networking space, I have seen the following best
practises;</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>Create an "account"
with all your personal identifiable and personal
information.</SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>Your account home
page contains your activity stream which pulls all your communications
together. IMHO, I think it should be called MyStream - home page is such an
abused label.</SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>Create different
"profiles" for your different social "circles" to control the release of
personal information and messages (Plaxo, Friendika,
Google+?)</SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>Upload your address
book to store as "contacts" (Plaxo, Friendika), which can be invited as
"guests" (Tonidoplug, general web) based on relationships (Plaxo, inventors of
portable contacts)</SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>At the most have two degrees
of separation between you and your personal
information/messages.</SPAN></FONT></LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
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<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>Your "Wall" offers
you the options to share your "Status", "Photos",
"Videos".</SPAN></FONT></LI></SPAN></FONT>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>People outside of
your Friend of Friend network are *public* regardless of whether
they are on your current network or the public - Facebook removed this
distinction.</SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>When you post a
message indicate the message's sensitivity/audience e.g. Private, Public
(Tonido), although, personally, I would like to expand this
idea to include Secret, i.e. please do not forward,
and Confidential i.e. forward to one more degree of separation
only. There is an option in Friendika's Wall that a posting will only be
seen by the intended recipients and not their friends too. If all social
networking sites did this you wouldn't need the messaging service
simplifying the UX. </SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>All social
networking sites allow you create "groups" for people outside your usual
social circle "members". These groups can be private, like an IRC room,
moderated or public.</SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>The social
networking home page lists all public posts as the "public stream"
(twitter, identi.ca, wordpress.com)</SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>Each account holder
can "follows" public posts and have "followers" of their public
posts</SPAN></FONT></LI></UL>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>In the bullet points
above, the labels "account", "profiles", "contacts", "guests", "wall",
"status" "photos" and "videos", "groups", "members", "followers" and
"follows" create well known mental models, i.e. everybody knows
what UX sits behind those labels. As long as FBX uses these will known labels
and when we do absolutely need to introduce our own labels use words with
well-known concepts behind them, e.g. secret and confidential ;), then we should
be fine. In the list above, I included Googles "circles" because I assume that
label offers better privacy than Facebooks "lists" and FBX is privacy
first.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>One of my pet peeves
of the software industry is their need to jargonise everything which twitter
seems to have turned into a way of life with its tweet (websms), RT (forward),
follow (subscriptions), followers (subscribers) :p</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>Writing this has led
to ideas about the differences between real world identities and online
identities that FBX needs to consider, but I need to think through a few more
things before I post those ideas.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>What problems still
exist in social networking that we need a UX expert? What do people
think?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=593314905-12082011>--
fiftyfour</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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