Facebook Relationships: “It’s Complicated”
gnovis ran an article of mine today on Facebook Relationships. Here is a teaser to convince you go and read it:
It is an age-old story, boy/girl/* meets boy/girl/*, they go on a few dates, and all seems well. Then one of the two (or three?) brings up a daunting topic: the Facebook Relationship status.
Read it here!
Facebook Relationships and Information Architecture @ gnovis
January 9th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Thoroughly enjoyed this! And I agree, all relatinships should just be categorized as “It’s complicated.”
January 14th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
What happened to freeform fields? 😉
November 2nd, 2010 at 4:37 pm
[…] The day before I read this post, I gave a lecture on “Remembering, Forgetting and the Challenges of Representing Humans” in Social Implications of Information Systems. During this lecture I talked to students about the ways in which the design of a site like Facebook can help us share details from our lives, but in doing so it also restrains what can be shared. When talking about Facebook’s Relationship Status I made the point that a drop-down box of values is probably too limited to capture the full range of our relationship experiences (something I have blogged about before). […]