Moli. A social network with a difference?
May 16th 2007NiaLLLarkinUncategorized
Just has a look at new social network Moli They distinguish themselves on the users ability to create several profiles to represent different facets of themselves to different consitituencies on the web. This means the user can be a house angel and street devil or vice versa. In effect, I can make it so that only my college buddies can see pics of me drinking beer and my professional contacts only get to see the professional me. Tribe had a similar approach to the problem of faceting. There is a ‘hard problem for social networks’ residing in this issue. All lot of publicity around social networks centers around how teens can avoid predators. But teens are not half as afraid of predators as they are of ‘potential employers’ and ‘parents’ seeing facets of their personality that they were never meant to see. At the moment users get around this problem by creating several profiles to present different facets of themselves. Moli is a new startup and I wouldn’t be surprised if it has a little something more up their sleeve when it comes to solving this particular issue of online social networking.
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