YouthNetworks
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After Mashup Camp
Both sessions for this topic turned out great and I, Cassie, got some great help, feedback, and advice for creating a new kind of social networking site! If you'd like to know more about the session or what I'm doing you can email me at cassie AT dara-abrams DOT com or check out my blog at http://cassie.dara-abrams.com/blog. You can also email or contact whoever else was at the two great sessions! Also, an online, threaded forum has been set up to keep the discussion moving online.
Session Will Be Continued during the last scheduled session time on Day 2 of Mashup Camp2!
What do you want to discuss in the second half of this session?
-Cassie wants to talk more about how the mashups we're creating and using can be used in new social networks. (We're already doing these really cool mashups, how can they be used in social networks??)
If you are taking notes for session 2, please label them SESSION 2 (OR SECOND HALF OF SESSION) so we know what the notes are from.
If you would like to "pick Cassie's brain" please email her at cassie (at) dara-abrams.com, let's leave this session for topics that EVERYONE can understand and contribute to!!!
Introduction
This is the page for the session about NEW (and improved) social networking sites for young people (and people of all ages if the topic comes up). I, CassieDara-Abrams, have proposed this session because I AM a young person who uses social networking sites with my friends (I'm a 16 year old girl!).
This will not be a presentation from me or my mom (Benay Dara-Abrams)!! I want this to be a back and forth discussion about:
- Best/Worst (and in between) ideas about social networking sites, maybe we can make a list on the white board during our discussion.
- What features should be added
- How mashups can help make social networking sites BETTER!!
- I'd like to pitch some ideas of my own and everyone else is more than willing to do that as well.
- Feedback/more ideas for ideas that people bring up.
- And whatever else you want to talk about with social networking sites!
Over the past week I (and my whole family) have attended Mashup University and Mashup Camp (2). I've been seeing so many tools that could easily be put into social networking sites (as many others have realized as well, I bet).
I don't want dorky sites like Myspace and Facebook (Myspace especially) which don't have many features and to tell you the truth, don't work that well and I routinely get error messages on my myspace profile.
Notes from sessions
- Different opinions on how to define "Young" - We have anywhere from below 18 to below 30, even mid thirteen
- Child online protection act: Above 13
- Cronologigal, spirit, tech savvy, being on his own, having a job,
- Responsibility of payingn the bills, someone who wants to keep learning, someone who does not have responsibility for somebody young, your're too old when you're afraid of change
- Young is defined by the usage pattern - how much they use IM, email, etc.
- What do people want from a social network?
- Young is important because they are early adoptors - they are usually targeted for new services
- Notice that corelation of adoption rates and age is very different based in an international demographics and type of community
What is "young"?
General established lower bound age: 13
General votes for upper bound of young:
- 21/18 or younger - 6
- 22-30 - 7
- Mid-30s - 2
- Gray Area/State-of-mind/Body-stops-growing - 8
- Responsibility - 3
- Not Sure - 4
Want More Information?
If you would like to know more information, I guess you could go to Myspace, Facebook, or Friendster! : )
Session Will Be Held...
This session will be held:
- in room 5!!!!
- on Day 2
- Session 6 at 11:15AM-12:15PM
I hope you can come!!
morning session: notes by Cindy H. Lu
- introductions around the room
- what people do?
- what's considered young?
- why are they here attending the session?
- multi-dimensions of "young"
- "crap" is the in the eye of the beholder
- lower bounds tend to 13 yrs due to federal laws
- upper bounds 18, 25, 30
- "young" when you don't have responsibilities
- e.g. pay the bills, mortage
- socioeconomic status has a lot to deal with online usage
- many are interested in the session due to what they want to accomplish in their jobs
- "young" is when you have a lot of free time
- target the "youth": early adopters
- in college: "hip culture"
- what do young people want?
- young is when you're not afriad to learn
- mid-20s - is an in between stage
- technology adopter stage - behavior is different 1996; high school users - going to college
- threshold between youth & early adopters are very different in different countries
what do people use?
- myspace
- frappr
- friendster
- linked-in
- plaxo
- AIM
- mashup meeting
- skype
- care2
- flickr
- people use different sites depending on where their networks are
- how do you determine the features if people are joining the network based the people
- multiple personas
- geographic location is important
- usage cases differ based on different people
- a lot of people at the session seem to want to be able to create a new "service" and monetize on something that is better than what currently exists
afternoon session: notes by Cindy H. Lu
- what are the norms for the society?
- how do people work with each other online?
- concerns with parental control (topic of interst from morning session)
- guys like to find girls on myspace (comment from participant)
- sex is a draw for a lot of guys on myspace (comment from participant)
- guys/girls seems to have different usage models for online social networks
- a lot of people don't want to be contacted randomly
- possiblity of a rogue app? - mashups; 3rd party software
- how will be create new social networks?
- what will make things easy for people to use?
- frappr allows clones onto myspace (needs myspace account name and pw for it to work)
issues:
- can you drive people to a new domain from something withing a website?
- change in content to get new users
- ULA (user license agreement) - terms of service, grabbing content
- who owns the information?
- it seems like more people are using mashups withing myspace
- EVDB - myspace introduced by intern
- "i can't stand looking at another page"
- how fickle are people with trends?
- geocities - free hosting
- are things becoming more "sticky"
- fickleness - multiple sources
- seperate profile
- possibility for a single site to aggregate info?
- are smaller communites the better place to go
- the long tail?
- edgy? funny? what will get new users
