Comments on: How to build Facebook without using Facebook

By: rob

rob — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:13:37 +0000

Good point, Sheldon. It does make it easier when they are all in one place. If all your friends are in the walled garden and there’s a system to find them, it’s nice.

Outside the garden there are ways to search for friends, but it is more difficult. I’ve found them using Google some, but mostly I found all my friends in the pre-Facebook time by going to one friend’s blog and looking at their blogroll. Then I’d click around and around and find people. Each one I found I’d put into Google Reader.

And honestly, that’s how I find most friends in Facebook — I don’t search, I click around other people’s friends to see who I know.

So yes, Facebook makes it easier to connect with those in the garden. And it’s a little tougher to do it outside the garden, but then again, all of these tools I’m suggesting will all be a little tougher to do.

By: sheldon

sheldon — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:49:26 +0000

Good job in getting the majority of the features but I think there is one major thing missing.

Connecting.

Sure, I could probably find you if I searched for you on Google but I think out of the people on my friends list, I searched for maybe 1 or 2. The majority were found by looking at the friends lists of my other friends.

By: rob

rob — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:47:40 +0000

Google Pages is much cleaner. It was a blank slate to work with. Squidoo has stuff all over it last I looked at it. And I didn’t like it.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:06:35 +0000

you’re Google Pages site is very much like a Squidoo lens. Why did you choose Google over Squidoo?

By: Blake Schwendiman

Blake Schwendiman — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:12:53 +0000

I think this is a very good idea. I running into similar types of questions with all of my online “homes”. Good call!