Seven Principles of Social Networking

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Seven Principles of Social Networking
Dave Pollard outlines "a set of principles which might provide some clues on how to develop Social Networking Applications that really do work."
- "the existence of mutual trust, respect, context, and self-disclosure between the parties."
- conversational ice-breaking
- physical appearance as an icon of our identity
- a way to observe the other person's environment (I wonder whether a 'web space' would count here)
- doing something together, collaborating
- recognition that each of us is in a (separate) network
Pollard follows his list with a series of challenges for social software. More...