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by galaxyLogic 2032 days ago
I would love to have a social media platform where I can have multiple tiers of friends. Social Media "friends" and separately a circle of ACTUAL friends. You would get more access to the data shared by actual friends.

The best part of it would be that unlike in a CRM I wouldn't have to keep this data up-to-date. My (actual) friends would update their own data, only. Everybody would need to only keep their own data which they want their actual friends to see up-to-date.
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movedx 2032 days ago
> I would love to have a social media platform where I can have multiple tiers of friends. Social Media "friends" and separately a circle of ACTUAL friends. You would get more access to the data shared by actual friends.

"Um, /u/galaxyLogic? Why aren't I in you "ACTUAL" friends list? Is there something you want to tell me? Are we not actually friends?"

I see what you're trying to say - Facebook friends are often just random chumps you've met once, never or are distantly related to someone else you've met once - but I think a tiered system could quickly become something of burden on said friends :P

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rriepe 2032 days ago
It was taxing even before this. Welcome to the site! Now choose who your real friends are.
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galaxyLogic 2031 days ago
> Why aren't I in you "ACTUAL" friends list?

I can see the point. Nobody wants to be perceived as rude. At the same time I think everybody understands that if we've never met in person we probably are not friends enough to exchange phone-numbers for instance.

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neolog 2032 days ago
That was Google+
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chrismorgan 2032 days ago
And they even called it circles.
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mszcz 2032 days ago
...and it was an awesome idea.

The execution and shoving it down users throats, not so much.

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galaxyLogic 2031 days ago
They had circles but I think all the circles were basically equal conceptually, just different people in them (?)

What is needed is built-in support for the idea of "INNER CIRCLE". Those are the people with whom you are willing to share your phone-number with etc.

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manigandham 2031 days ago
Facebook has this but not many people use it. Google+ also had a good implementation in "circles".
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