First, about 2 hours ago Facebook announced they will be giving vanity urls starting his Friday June 12, 2009 at 9:01 am. This is a great thing for branding, marketing and companies. This got me thinking. There are several features I would like to see on some social networking sites. So let us step into……
In a world where I get what I want. In an imaginary place where companies listen to their customers/users.. there is one man who hopes that the: CEO, President, Community Manager, Guy Who Makes Sure Everyone Is Happy Manager listens.. ME! So listen up Facebook, Twitter and all you others.
This is a list of things I want. Okay maybe it is more of a, wouldn’t be nice if? Kind of thing. I will share it with you in list form as people like lists!
- Facebook I want a little button at the bottom of a persons profile where I can click “Add them to a friend list?” You click it, a drop down menu lets you pick the friend list they are added to. Its easy, quick and will make my life easier. (cause its all about me!)
-How about a mouse over feature that says “Did you know?” or “Other ways to do this!” Look if you reading this post, more than likely you are pretty familiar with the “Online World, Social Media, etc (insert hot buzz term here). Great, but we are the minority here. Most people do not know you can send pictures to Facebook via email or text. Nor do they know they can update their status the same way. After they do an upload, update, etc. give them a “Hey non power user did you know?” Heck all the parents at my kids school would thank you!
-Hey Twitter. I’m talking to you. I want a friend list option on your site. It needs to work like the facebook one I listed above. Get on that.. please and thank you.
-oh, how about the option to post hyperlinks with text? That way I have a better idea what they are about!
-Since I got on the subject of the whole mouse over thing. Sure would be nice..no make that GREAT if I could put my mouse over a persons pic and see their important stats. Oh, Oh, Oh… I know let’s do that with the whole “@joeblow” thing too. I want to mouse over that and see stats in the text box.
-Linkedin, here is what I want. Now follow me on this. Every now and then I will use the “check your email” feature. I email a lot. What happens I will do a lot of group emails with people. Some I do no know that well. So it would be great if you could find a way to display the emails to pick from by “email a lot all the way down to emailed once”. Then I can pick if I should add them. Also, find lets have a filter/fuzzy logic on emails with words like “support, craigslist, etc” I dont want to add Support@huggies.com”
So what features would you like to see on some of these sites?
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This post was written by davepeck on June 9, 2009
Nice one!! I really like it!! ….loving your idea's..and yet so simple when you think about it.. you should just start up your own site …..
ops forgot to log in lol that was me
This is great info, I agree with a lot of this, especially "how about the option to post hyperlinks with text? That way I have a better idea what they are about!"
I wonder if the developers are hearing these? I would love to have the functionality of trace back old Twitter DMs, and also knowing which replies they are referring to.
@wchingya
Thanks..Ill get right on the new site..
Thanks..now lets get them to do it!
nice.. would make it easier to follow conversations.
oh there was something…
When you are scrolling in twitter back through messages you have missed during some hours, and you look at a profile or something, can it not take you back to the beginning , but to where you were… its so frustrating.
Does that make sense?
Yes.. I think I am to lazy to fix it though
LOVE the links w/in text, how on earth is that so hard? Outlook does it for Peet's Sake. Also, anytime you can roll over a picture for features, I'm happy
One Twitter app I would LOVE to see would be a way to track a conversation between two people, rocket science I know?!
Thanks for the great post Dave!
Thank you! Agreed it Outlook can do it….
I'm pretty happy with the way that Facebook works (after complaining how I hated every change they have made). But I have to agree on the Twitter ones! The Twitter interface is just AWFUL! It does nothing that I want it to do! I've tried several 3rd part apps to manage and found something that I like in Seesmic but found that I end up having to go back and forth the the website to do things. How's that any good?!
Now all I can think about is bacon….
FaceBook needs to have a more robust search feature like MySpace. The one they have now is crap and I hate using it. MySpace search feature definitely allows you to search with a lot of different modifiers which makes finding things or people easy. FaceBook is just not there yet.
As for Twitter I hope they don't add too much because their site can not handle it. They have slow server issues and sometimes it comes to a screeching hault with all the traffic it gets. Until they can increase their bandwidth to the size of 10 Lincoln Tunnels, I wouldn't want to see any major enhancements yet.
Don't use LinkedIn…Boring! ( Sam is yawning in front of the camera with pearly whites showing).