I personally just don't like app invites. I don't use them, and I literally never pay attention to ones I get.
That said, the clusters are really impressive. All of my clusters were basically just groups of people from different times/events of my life (highschool people/friends, college friends, colleagues, people I knew when I lived in Syracuse, etc). It's an obvious way to separate my groups of networks, and it was fast. That's useful in so many contexts
What if we were to identify your evangelists based on "cluster completion?" What I mean by this is that we'd look for clusters that go from being densely unregistered friend clusters to densely registered over time, and see which friend(s) were the catalyst(s).
That would definitely be interesting from a startup founder's perspective.
From a purely consumer standpoint, I would use something like this to create my FB lists, if you made that easy. It's also useful when planning events. So, while I would personally never use it to send an app invite, I would use this if I was planning a party, and wanted to quickly see who I should invite and message, etc
I don't know, I am a college student and I find myself getting the most event invitations from Facebook (that being said, it might change drastically in a work environment).
Do you view the invites you receive as complete spam? I guess it might depend on the size of your college, and how open the college is to parties, events, etc.
You're right, I feel like it can be useful in so many contexts. And I'm sure there is one application that will hit it out of the park. I just can't put my finger on it, though.
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I personally just don't like app invites. I don't use them, and I literally never pay attention to ones I get.
That said, the clusters are really impressive. All of my clusters were basically just groups of people from different times/events of my life (highschool people/friends, college friends, colleagues, people I knew when I lived in Syracuse, etc). It's an obvious way to separate my groups of networks, and it was fast. That's useful in so many contexts
Yes, I see what you mean regarding app invites.
What if we were to identify your evangelists based on "cluster completion?" What I mean by this is that we'd look for clusters that go from being densely unregistered friend clusters to densely registered over time, and see which friend(s) were the catalyst(s).
That would definitely be interesting from a startup founder's perspective.
From a purely consumer standpoint, I would use something like this to create my FB lists, if you made that easy. It's also useful when planning events. So, while I would personally never use it to send an app invite, I would use this if I was planning a party, and wanted to quickly see who I should invite and message, etc
Interesting.
We actually thought about offering this as a tool to a company like Paperless Post to speed up their process.
What do you think?
You are not your user. App invites can be very effective among some user populations.
I don't know, I am a college student and I find myself getting the most event invitations from Facebook (that being said, it might change drastically in a work environment).
Either way, awesome work Tony & co!
Thank you!
Do you view the invites you receive as complete spam? I guess it might depend on the size of your college, and how open the college is to parties, events, etc.
You're right, I feel like it can be useful in so many contexts. And I'm sure there is one application that will hit it out of the park. I just can't put my finger on it, though.
What about making clusters correspond to waves of enemies in a game?
This would be an awesome text-based adventure game, yeah?