Jeff Pulver requests Facebook Invisibility
Invisibility? On a social network? Whaaaaa?
Jeff Pulver thinks (and I agree) that making an invisible profile would work out to being a pretty useful option in Facebook:
Yossi Vardi recently commented he would join Facebook if he had the ability to be invisible. And after thinking about this, I realized that invisibility is a killer feature that could bring another wave of people into Facebook and could also help protect our kids against predators on social networks.
The way I imagine invisibility might work would be if I choose to be invisible, I would show up on my friends friend list when a friend looked at their friends list, but when a friend of a friend looked at the same friends list, my name would not appear. Invisibility is something that could help some people deal with the social awkwardness created by social networks.
It would certainly help avoid the trap of social awkwardness that Cory Doctorow thinks will kill all social networks.
What do you guys think? Good idea/Bad idea?
Welcome to our community! If you like what you see, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed!
{ 1 comment… read it below or add one }
Seriously bad idea for me if I am Facebook (or whatever is latest and greatest next week). Even if it’s useful to you, the whole reason I exist as one of these sites is so that people can… well, network? Socially?
Sure, it might be useful for users to be able to use my service to get things done, etc., but how will this help my mousetrap become sticky to more people? It won’t.
Whether this is a good or bad idea is moot. They won’t do it.
Leave a Comment