Vine seems awesome, but it has a fundamental issue that I just can't get past: I can't easily add my friends from Facebook. Now that isn't Vine's (or Twitter's) fault, it's due to Facebook's new policies[1], a policy that was nearly too late and required them to buy out Instagram.
I don't know how a company can help someone find their current Facebook friends, and match that with users of their social network, but it is one of the essential cogs[2] to usurp Facebook as the dominant social network
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[1] "You may not use Facebook Platform to promote, or to export user data to, a product or service that replicates a core Facebook product or service without our permission" https://developers.facebook.com/policy/ (section I.10)
[2] Finding existing friends is only one of the essential parts to growing a vibrant social network. You also need a stable and clear platform for people to communicate/share, and a novel feature/s to give people an excuse to try it out (e.g. Facebooks was more pics and tagging, G+ was circles/hangouts, Instagram was filters, etc).
I find that an interesting contrast to my position. If anything even mentions facebook I avoid it. Social network integration to me is a privacy concern, and it's overuse a social liability.
I don't know how a company can help someone find their current Facebook friends, and match that with users of their social network, but it is one of the essential cogs[2] to usurp Facebook as the dominant social network
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[1] "You may not use Facebook Platform to promote, or to export user data to, a product or service that replicates a core Facebook product or service without our permission" https://developers.facebook.com/policy/ (section I.10)
[2] Finding existing friends is only one of the essential parts to growing a vibrant social network. You also need a stable and clear platform for people to communicate/share, and a novel feature/s to give people an excuse to try it out (e.g. Facebooks was more pics and tagging, G+ was circles/hangouts, Instagram was filters, etc).