Comment by TulliusCicero
19 hours ago
It's a great idea in principle, but it requires some manual work, which most users aren't gonna bother with.
19 hours ago
It's a great idea in principle, but it requires some manual work, which most users aren't gonna bother with.
> it requires some manual work, which most users aren't gonna bother with
Dowsing a user's circles from their public information and Gmail inbox seems like a perfect task for AI.
Exactly.
Self-defining all of the semantic grouping metadata was too much onus on the user.
Not everybody has the patience to curate and groom their social circle labels and memberships. That feels like a full time job.
I spent way too much time stressing over how to define my "circles". It was not a good experience.
I don’t think it’s about the effort needed. The basic idea is just too complex for most people.
It would be easy to send a notification “you haven’t interacted with Sally in 6 months, so we’re removing her from your network. Click here to add her back” or something along those lines and nobody would be the least confused. They’d probably be annoyed often enough though.