Re:A Teenager’s View on Social Media
by AndrewKemendo on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @05:00PM
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I will never use your service if I have to sign up, confirm my email address, add friends, convince them to sign up and actually check it
Isn't this exactly what snapchat did though - except with a phone number instead of email?
Re:A Teenager’s View on Social Media
by omg_ketchup on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @04:27PM
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Because it's hard to integrate facebook authorization with a new group app, right?
You are going to need significant value-add to convince people to bootstrap their identities and social graph all over again. Snapchat did it by piggybacking on "people who have each other's phone numbers." Tumblr did it by not doing it - the social network is deliberately separate, and you have to be much closer to someone for them to tell you their Tumblr URL.
I will never use your service if I have to sign up, confirm my email address, add friends, convince them to sign up and actually check it, etc. Decentralization is the surest way to destroy user experience. Facebook already knows me and everyone I know in real life. Why would I not just use it?