Well said. Actually, sometimes it ...
Anecdotally, the more useful a platform is for holding a conversation, the less likely people are to accept friend-requests or return follows.
Where the conversational utility is perceived to be low, people will trend towards the indiscriminate, accepting most friendship/group invitations, returning follows, and so on.
When the utility is perceived to be high, people become considerably fussier and more discriminating.
It’s basically easier to get on each-other’s contact lists, if neither of you think you will actually be in contact with each-other.
Doesn’t bode well for AU, does it? I’ve been ignoring requests right and left over there–because I’d like to see it become useful, not just monetized, as Hamlet’s post today seems to be aiming at.
AU seems to be being used primarily as an exposure and brand/advertising outlet at the moment. Which isn’t really surprising, I suppose. It’s pretty much what you’d expect. I don’t really see how that fits in with Linden Lab’s broader strategy, though — other than it might eventually stop SL getting compared to Facebook.
I’d say AU might have more value if Kingdon also bought a number of other MMOx 3D web properties not currently owned by MMOx 3D publishers. The “spice” is linkage/inbound links/clicks/views/google ranking/eyes and … well you know the cliche.
The only thing is will LL be the right stuff to network it all and steward it through without alienating the entire universe.
As it stands all AU is now is to me is a place where people obtain some small measure of entertainment value by requesting to be “united” with me. And then a not insignificant percentage of them that never read my last status keep sending me group invites so they can get their banner ad on my profile until I notice it and click ignore. I hear I am not alone in this regard. Not a very glamorous start for the AU/SL community relationship lmao
I know what you mean. I’m getting tired of seeing the same groups appearing on my profile time and time again.
I look forward to releasing the virtual social web site I’m working on, so that LL can buy me out.
I noticed that keeping the group requests OPEN prevents them from coming in again. I declined “Search for the Golden Prim” 3 times, before I found out. Same with unite-requests. Koinup Burt was expecially notorious.
I thought that until today, when one person sent me invites for the same group twice in a row. And even if they’re still open, they show on your profile as if you’d accepted.
that was an interesting analysis