Comments on: Should Facebook Create a New Type of Relationship for Game Friends?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:30:13 +0000

What does this open the door to? If all the Christians decide they want to be each other’s friends thus polluting the social graph in the same way the games are doing now, does facebook create a new kind of Christian Friend to isolate these people from facebook’s core features as well?

I believe that facebook’s roadmap is a much better solution to the problem. They’ve identified how social game friendships are demeaning their users and will attack the problem at the roots while still allowing those friendships to flourish. “Game Friends” is a shot from the hip that only hides the problem and creates future ones down the road.

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By: skoobs

skoobs — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:24:19 +0000

other social networking sites have a similar friend category: online buddies, online friends, etc. That is a good separator of info, at least for now, but will dilute the relevance of Facebook when social gaming loses its charm in the future

By: Mitali

Mitali — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:48:37 +0000

I already suggested this Facebook platform folks a few months back. They actually seemed interested in the idea. Hopefully all game developers can band together to put some pressure on them? :)

By: Pretty Black

Pretty Black — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:52:18 +0000

I like that idea but i have come to like and know some of my game buddys