Re:Facebook and “radical transparency”
by derefr on Friday May 14, 2010 @06:54PM
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> When people think “friends-of-friends” they don’t think about all of the types of people that their friends might link to; they think of the people that their friends would bring to a dinner party if they were to host it.
Could the second category be realized as an algorithm/interface-aspect? Because, basically, this is what Facebook comes down to: "I want to share things with people I have determined will be nice to me, and people that those people have also determined will be nice to me." Note that the second clause isn't "will be nice to them." If A trusts B, and B trusts C, but A hates C and B knows that, then the ideal social network would somehow encode that.
Right now, all I can imagine in an O(n^2) operation where, every time you make a friend, you mark a subset of your friends as their peripheral friends. There's gotta be a better way than that.
Could the second category be realized as an algorithm/interface-aspect? Because, basically, this is what Facebook comes down to: "I want to share things with people I have determined will be nice to me, and people that those people have also determined will be nice to me." Note that the second clause isn't "will be nice to them." If A trusts B, and B trusts C, but A hates C and B knows that, then the ideal social network would somehow encode that.
Right now, all I can imagine in an O(n^2) operation where, every time you make a friend, you mark a subset of your friends as their peripheral friends. There's gotta be a better way than that.