[Air-L] the growth of some groups and not others

[Murray Turoff]

The standard design philosophy currently being used in many social network
systems is to encourage the user to sign into the site and duplicate
functions like exchanging messages in different formats.  For many users
this is too much a waste of time in that most important things are carried
out by the user in their current message environment.  The addition of
groups that social networks finally recognized (they existed in some systems
in the 70's) as a key valuable addition to communication systems will spread
and be better integrated in message services.  I also note that some social
networks are making it easier to handle social network functions without
signing in and leaving your normal environment.  Like many of you I
currently am in 4 different network social systems and within groups within
those.  It gets to be a real mess when one cannot easily move through the
different environments by being able to do the same function in one way in
one place.



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> Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Information Systems, NJIT
homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff