If MoreThan Talk is going to being successful, we will need to help build trust into the social network. If users are going to be comfortable with sharing their personal data with the site and between fellow users, then we will have to work to develop trust. For Rousseau trust is a “psychological state comprising […]
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Calculating Trust on MoreThan Talk
There are three broad types of trust that have been identified. 1.      Policy-based trust – these will be the explicit expectations, policies, terms and conditions that MoreThan Talk will need to develop in order to sign up members. There will also need to be some easy to understand user instructions where expectations about the sort […]
Design Considerations for Our Social Network
We are in the world of YASNS. The term was first coined by Clay Shirky in 2003, when he said we have on our hands ‘Yet another Social Networking Service’ [1]. Shirky was writing at a time when social networks were growing daily in number. Wikipedia currently lists around 200 active (or recently active) social […]