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I just read an article titled "shyness in Japan's online social and online social scene challenges...", which made me think of to what degree there is a need for supporting cultural differences, beyond languages and look and feel, in features of international social network sites.
On one hand the one-size-fits-all approach is simpler and can be argued to support a "global internet culture" and better support interactions across cultural boundaries, on the other hand there are a lot of differences in cultural norms when it comes to socializing and catering more for them might increase recruitment and usage.
What are your thoughts on this?
On one hand the one-size-fits-all approach is simpler and can be argued to support a "global internet culture" and better support interactions across cultural boundaries, on the other hand there are a lot of differences in cultural norms when it comes to socializing and catering more for them might increase recruitment and usage.
What are your thoughts on this?
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Leuck on
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This is very true. We had many discussions about this with our partner in Japan re: ooi. A few of the things we are doing to address this is providing fine grain permissions for visibility of user info and media, making the visibility of these items prominent in the UI and providing explicit support for intra-SNSs (social networks that exist within an organization.)
As Scott Murphy mentions in this discussion, intra-SNSs are very popular in Japan. We also discussed this in the Social Networks, Anonymity, Reputation & Aloha blog post. -
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Permalink Reply by Viil on
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As Scott Murphy mentions in this discussion, intra-SNSs are very popular in Japan. We also discussed this in the Social Networks, Anonymity, Reputation & Aloha blog post.
Thanks for making me aware of those discussions Dan. -
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