Adventures in Facebook, part 2
Good news. I have no messages in my facebook in box. I am a non-entity. I'm pleased because when I had a MySpace account, I would routinely get requests for people to be my friend (disingenuous doesn't begin to explain MySpace). I quit.
Now on to finding friends in facebook. This works! Just found a high school buddy and saw half a dozen other people I recognized. The networks work well- you have to prove you belong, such as with an email address for a college. This is great and helps keep it legit. I did join my work network. I was surprised to see over 2,000 people from Sprint on facebook.
More importantly is that they are using Facebook discussion forums for important topics on the business. Hopefully we can get the same spirit internally on our own community platform.
Back on topic. I started checking out facebook groups. They suffer the same problems as groups on any social site (like YouTube)- too many about the same thing. How many Sean Taylor RIP groups does DC need? I propose that one big group is better than several smaller ones (Metcalfe's law). But how is this done? Group creation should be moderated- that is manageable and would produce a better community. At the very least, the system should recommend to you similar groups to the one you are trying to create BEFORE you can create it. You should also have to explain why your group is different that the others like it.
BTW, Facebook is a clear winner in my opinion over the clutter and self-pimping on MySpace.
