‘The Social Network’
by Motte Brown
Here’s the [fairly raunchy] trailer for the new Facebook movie opening October 1st.
It’s interesting that Hollywood chose to make a movie about the evolution of Facebook instead of creating a story (or stories) about how the advent of social networking has affected our lives and, in particular, our relationships. You know, like what they did with email in “You’ve Got Mail.”
To be sure, this technology has revolutionized the way we communicate, consume information and … date? The Facebook-like walls on Marry Well are a good example. The social networking aspect of this site helps make it more of a community instead of just another dating service.
What other features from Facebook do you think would be helpful for Marry Well?
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Farmville!
Seriously though, we currently have the ability to follow members, but all that does is create a list. Perhaps it could be more like the facebook homepage telling when they updated their status or added pictures or changed their details or became actual members.
I think the status updates can be great conversation starters, so I’d like a place where we can see everyone’s status, or even just the latest updates for a certain period of time (like last 2-3 days).
The 5 statuses on the Lodge homepage disappear quickly and when I view individual profiles, statuses don’t always show up.
Here are a few ideas from Facebook and other dating sites (and sorry for the lack of spacing/linefeeds)…1. How about putting some sort of notification on the first page you see when you login if someone has written on your wall. 2. How about a MW Mobile website (like Facebook Mobile) for those of us who use a phone for internet surfing? 3. How about notification when someone replies to a Lodge post – it wouldn’t need to be emailed (as that could generate a lot of email), just a notice on My Home that the post has received more comments. 4. The ability to delete our Lodge posts. 5. The ability to retract a private message like on other dating sites. 6. Indicating whether a person is a premium member at the top of their profile. 7. Some sort of bulletin board for group discussion. 8. Integration of chat anyone?
9. Have a status show up on your wall and the ability for others to comment on it in the version of a string.
Have a menu bar at the top that appears on every page with all the links you need. For example, if I’m on the Lodge page, I can’t get to my profile or my messages without first going to the home page.
Wall-to-wall.
Pictures next to Lodge Posts if you’re logged in.
Notification when people change their relationship status to exploring or engaged so we can all congratulate them!
There are such smart people on here! I love it!
Pictures next to the lodge posts would be nice and a “wall to wall” conversation string would be very helpful.
Ditto putting pictures next to the lodge posts. I think it will generate more profile views for people.
Something I’d like to see that isn’t on Facebook (and wouldn’t work on FB, anyway), is a list of new members. Then you look at profiles as soon as they’re created.
canadian made some good suggestions. I like #1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (makes you feel better if he/she doesn’t reply to your private message).
I wouldn’t bother with 8. If you’re interested in someone after the initial interaction on MW, you can chat on FB, GTalk, AIM, Yahoo! Chat, or any other of the zillion ways out there.
The more like Facebook the better.
(That is, excepting the applications.)
Seriously, I think Marry Well would become more of a community if it were easier to keep up with other members. Why not have an activity feed? We can see John Doe’s status update, Jane Doe’s Lodge post comment, John writing on Jane’s Wall, Sue’s comment on John’s wall post, etc.
It’s these elements that make Facebook such a community I think. They allow people to get to know each other, watching how they interact within the community.
Something that I have thought about several times since I found MW. Is the addition of an actual forum. I know we have something like that already, but doing it as a forum is a lot more organized and easier to find subjects of interest.
Something I am not understanding.
Canadian had some really good suggestions. What I do not get is number 6, “Indicating whether a person is a premium member at the top of their profile.” Why do others need to know that. I do not have a problem with it, I just would like to know why you think that is necessary.
@suzymparker: You cannot reply on the sender’s board/wall to comments they left on yours or messages sent to your inbox unless you have premium membership status.
How about “invite ___ friends and get __ months free.”
Thats what I want to see happen. Haha
I would like to see some men/women only forums that would provide a means for people to discuss topics better suited for discussion with others of the same gender.
Clear divisions in our profile information that shows where one field ends and another one begins.
Just one more: there’s a bug in the Google chrome interface that we cannot scroll to the right on the picture strip when viewing profile pics. It would be fantastic if this could be ironed out!
I’d like to be able to use HTML tags in our profiles.