Grasping Social Patterns

Grasping Social Patterns and social antipatterns ( or antisocial patterns ?) Christian Crumlish Yahoo! Design Pattern Library Yahoo! Developer Network Ignite! SF, April 22, 2008

Social Antipatterns

Don’t break email! don’t: do:

Social media is always awkward when it’s new “ Hello?” “ Is that you, Mr. Gilbert?” “ Hello?”

http://flickr.com/photos/dhbress/87105370/ ubiquity a social moment?

Permission-based stalking

Oh hai! Will u be my frend (y/n)?

laughingsquid tweeted: dear cryptic username, I would have a much better chance of recognizing you if your friend request lited your name…

natekoechley tweeted: @mediajunkie I hate that I need to spam my friends with adds/invites each time I join a new service. Painful bar to entry, often too tall.

Teach a man to be phished

Friends you may know / power-law

fimoculous tweeted: The “people you should know” list on Facebook is actually a list of people your hate.”

Portable social networks?

Do let me take my network with me wherever I go.

Don’t make me reassert everything each time I go somewhere new

Personal social networks?

Beware the unintended consequences that come from removing data from originating context!

Also , can we start saying “personal social networks”? (same initials, yay!)

Auto-faux-pas

notification of rejection

unsubbing / delinking

or caught by the re-follow

relationship status changed to “it’s complicated”

I tried doing this on Facebook so I could capture a funny screenshot for this slide and my wife was not amused

“ Talk amongst yourselves. I’ll give you a topic: ‘Open Social is neither open nor social.’ Discuss.” “ Talk amongst yourselves. I’ll give you a topic: ‘OpenSocial is neither open nor social.’ Discuss.”

Open social architecture