There’s a lot to like about the recent changes to Facebook, but, as an application developer, many of the changes are a mixed bag. Changes to navigation and to interaction points between Facebook and applications are problematic, while new application privacy features are a good start but seem incomplete. Navigation to Apps Formerly, the application [...]
Also tagged designThe first of my social software for wellness applications is available on Facebook (info page). Three Good Things supports a positive psychology exercise in which participants record three good things, and why these things happened. When completed daily – even on the bad days – over time, participants report increased happiness and decreased symptoms of [...]
Also tagged happiness, positive psychology, research, social software, three good things, three positive things, wellnessIn a post describing some teens’ use of Twitter and Facebook (Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody; some teens are using private Twitter accounts for communication with friends because Twitter is too public), danah boyd poses the following question: My guess is that if Twitter does take off among teens and Dylan’s friends feel [...]
Also tagged identity, privacy, twitterA month or so ago, Cory Doctorow wrote a column about how your “creepy ex-co-workers will kill Facebook,” and introduced what he calls “boyd’s law:” Adding more users to a social network increases the probability that it will put you in an awkward social circumstance. I think there’s an important corollary: adding more features and [...]
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