Redesigning Social Network

 Welcome to MYBOOK
The New Frontier for Social Networking

What is wrong with Facebook?

 

1) No real separation between friends, acquaintances and relatives.
2) Privacy settings are cumbersome.
3) Oversharing.
4) Ruins romantic relationships.
5) No real solution on bullying.
6) Very loud advertisements.

SOLUTION=COMPARTMENTALIZATION
For Customized Communication

FEATURES:
-SAFE FRIEND PORTALS: Customized “friends” area, where one can categorize the types of friends they’ve connected with:
– Close Friends
– Coworkers
– Family
– Significant Other (Optional)
– Random Hookups (Optional)
– Or make up your own

Click and choose which portal to visit to see what everyone is up to.

– ANTIBULLY APP
For cutting down abusive users

– ROTATING WEB BANNERS
To cut down on noisy ads (located beneath)

– NEWS FEED OPTION
Customize if you want to follow your friends/family/coworkers’s status or follow the news of things you like (i.e. Bloomberg, CNN, MTV, Nike, signed-up events).

– EASY ACCESS TO CHANGE MODES
For visiting and communicating directly

 

SHARING PROCEDURES

Sharing Option:
You can determine who sees your “Status Updates”, “Photo Albums”, “Blog” with a check box of your customized “Friend Portals”.  AND NO MORE OVERSHARING!

ANTI BULLYING APP:

! BULLY MARK
Inspired by the book Scarlet Letter. Bullies are branded by a red exclamation point which they would have to bare on their profile avatars for at least a month. Their profile page will be dimmed for dramatic effect. If bullying persists, whatever they publish will be turned into greek. Bullies will be determined by a word count of negative words within the course of one day upon the app has been activated. If abusive words total 20, the branding begins. Bully Mark will be taken off until profile user has been forced to interact positively.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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