[buddypress-dev] "Mutual Friends" and "People You May Know"

[Aaron Jorbin]

I think having a system of one way relationships would be the way to go.
You could have people that are "Friends" where there are duel one-way
relationships and "Buddies" which are completely one way.  That would allow
people to be be connected and follow any one they want, along with the
ability to also have a pre-arranged whitelist if you don't want the world to
see anything.  A friend list could also have 3 sections: Friends, My Buddies
(people I follow) and Budies of mine (people following me).

aj

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Cass Edwards <cass at wildilocks.com> wrote:

> I agree with Ponara, a one-way "fan" type designation is far more relevant
> to a blog-specific SN, than FB which is designed to be an
> acknowledgement-of-relationship tool.
>
> Cass
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Ponara <ponara at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I would like to suggest that "people you may know" is unnecessary, it is
>> in theory attempting to guess-match you to people you may know based on
>> profile info and related friends, not an easy thing to do - and facebook has
>> never shown me someone I "may know".
>> I'm more hoping to allow people to be a fan of another author or member -
>> a fan doesn't have to be "confirmed", this way a fan can be kept abreast of
>> the author's latest blogs, comments, etc via the wire.  It is used to good
>> effect on 2.0 news sites that are increasingly resembling a social network.
>> (huffingtonpost.com, gothamist.com)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:01 PM, <chris at stillbreathing.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We have the beginnings of a friend system but it needs a lot of work.
>>> The good news is it should be fairly easy to show 'friends of friends'
>>> and 'mutual friends'. I'm not sure how 'people you may know' works.
>>> Can someone explain?
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> On 6/17/08, Jerome <jeromebeta at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > As we know, "Mutual Friends" and "People You May Know" are the
>>> important and
>>> > attractive features on Facebook, are they in our BuddyPress plan? I did
>>> not
>>> > see it on trac.buddypress.com yet so far, thanks!
>>> >
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