Airbnb Taps Facebook, Lets You Crash With Friends Of Friends

Re:Airbnb Taps Facebook, Lets You Crash With Friends Of Friends by stretchwithme on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @04:35PM (#2533985)

That actually makes a lot of sense. It leverages your own judgement about your friend's judgement and provides potential social consequences for bad behavior.

But the nature of your friendships is poorly captured by Facebook. You can't really tell if people have been friends for 20 years or 20 minutes. Or if they've never met or made a baby together.

There ought to be a simple way to quantify both the "trustedness" of a relationship. At the very least, there should be a "Trust" button underneath every friend's profile photo.

With that info, Airbnb could tell you who your trusted friends trust, which is way more useful.

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Re:Airbnb Taps Facebook, Lets You Crash With Friends Of Friends by mattraibert on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @07:54PM (#2534552)

After hearing about this, I'm going to clean up my Facebook friends based on whether I'd let them crash in my house.

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Re:Airbnb Taps Facebook, Lets You Crash With Friends Of Friends by patrickod on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @04:42PM (#2534008)

That all depends on what criteria you use for adding people on Facebook. Personally I try to keep it to people that I actually know in contrast to people whom I've met once or twice. No matter what happens you're still trusting your friends' judgement in character.

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Re:Airbnb Taps Facebook, Lets You Crash With Friends Of Friends by stretchwithme on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @05:24PM (#2534145)

and what criteria you're friends use. I don't have much of a handle on the latter.

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Re:Airbnb Taps Facebook, Lets You Crash With Friends Of Friends by aquark on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @04:52PM (#2534039)

Would the 'Trust' button really work any better than the 'Friend' concept? It would just get devalued due to 'inflation' in the same way that people has 800+ 'friends' on Facebook.

What message does not clicking the 'trust' button for friend send to them! Only purely factual information would avoid the problem, e.g. showing family relationships. Showing how long you've known the person would be a good start.

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Re:Airbnb Taps Facebook, Lets You Crash With Friends Of Friends by stretchwithme on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @12:53AM (#2535222)

The message would be "I know you enough to trust you."

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Re:Airbnb Taps Facebook, Lets You Crash With Friends Of Friends by cliffchang on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @05:02PM (#2534069)

Or, you could talk to your mutual friend and ask if their friend is on the up-and-up.

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