Comments on: The Best Social Software http://fstutzman.com/2008/03/25/the-best-social-software/ Thoughts about information, social networks, and privacy Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:54:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ge http://fstutzman.com/2008/03/25/the-best-social-software/comment-page-1/#comment-1168 ge Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:15:00 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/~fred/projects/blog/?p=574#comment-1168 I agree 100%, Fred. It's also important that the people to whom we allow selective access <b>not</b> be able to see which group we have put them in. If I allow you to see what I post to group X, I don't want you to know that X == "acquaintances", not "intimate friends" because you might feel bad about that. This is a super private categorization that we all engage in.<br/><br/>Your idea reminds me of <a HREF="http://downlode.org/Etext/Patterns/ptn179.html" REL="nofollow">this pattern</a>.<br/><br/>-- ge I agree 100%, Fred. It’s also important that the people to whom we allow selective access not be able to see which group we have put them in. If I allow you to see what I post to group X, I don’t want you to know that X == “acquaintances”, not “intimate friends” because you might feel bad about that. This is a super private categorization that we all engage in.

Your idea reminds me of this pattern.

– ge

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