One of the (many) things that makes Multiply different than the hordes of generic social networking-type services available are relationships.
On Multiply, your contacts are more than just generic "friends" – and your relationships with them are more than just a simple title. The relationship type you choose will determine how much of your contact's network you become connected to through your relationship with them. In addition, relationships not only help you determine which posts on your message board are worth reading... but also help us determine which users should be in your network. All relationship types serve to include new people in your network, save for one – Online Buddy.
While we realize that people may relate differently to those they know exclusively via the Internet, within the context of Multiply, the Online Buddy relationship connects users to one another, while not further connecting them to other users in one another's networks. This relationship type is great for, say, keeping up to date with someone who posts interesting content, but may not be someone you know well enough to accept into your network.
So if you have someone that you'd like to share with, but don't quite want to entrust with the immense responsibility of also connecting with the people you know, the Online Buddy relationship is there for you!
Is there an easy way to change a relationship when you have the mini profile pop-ups turned off?
Will it ever be possible to have asymmetric relationships? ie, I might want to have SomePerson as just an Online Buddy (because I like reading his stuff, but not so much interested in his friends') but he/she might want to have me as a Friend so they can see my network.
Could you PLEASE add the Half Star feature to the reviews... often I want to give movies a 3 and a half, or four and a half star, but have to lump them... would be a great help!!! thanks so much...
That's great but I'd really like you guys to consider taking it one step further and move it up the tree. So we would end up with Family, Friends, Professionals, and Online Buddies (or similar) in the Contacts section. I've got heaps of stuff which I want my Friends to see but not my Online Buddies - mainly because I don't know them that well. So I tend to avoid having online buddies. Maybe this is one for the next upgrade...???
But that still doesn't hide the fact that Multiply rocks! Keep up the great work guys.
That's great but I'd really like you guys to consider taking it one step further and move it up the tree. So we would end up with Family, Friends, Professionals, and Online Buddies (or similar) in the Contacts section. I've got heaps of stuff which I want my Friends to see but not my Online Buddies - mainly because I don't know them that well. So I tend to avoid having online buddies. Maybe this is one for the next upgrade...???
But that still doesn't hide the fact that Multiply rocks! Keep up the great work guys.
I second that!
I have a couple of outstanding invitation from possible "online buddies", which I don't know what to do with. I don't know them, one just stumbled onto another's post, thereby launching a reciprocal visit.
They'd be interesting to network with, but I certainly don't want them to be privy to really personal albums and information.They really shouldn't be on the same level as my closest friends.
that a lovely feature - had used that since the beginning. My feedback .. not all user use this feature. So, when someone invite us as they friend. Instead of 'accept' or 'reject' can we have an option to reply the invitation and propose to change relation type. The one who invite then can either 'accept' or 'reject'. Now - what I do (in that case), accept the invitation then make a request to change relationship (which I have to make a lot of clicking). Thanks.
I totally agree with innerteapot and rmarca, because there're loads of times that i wanted to share some private information with most of my direct contacts (who are in the catagory of friends) but i didn't want my online buddies or my professional contacts to see them.. It's quite a personal stuff which I think only my real friends should see or discuss, and i'm too lazy to select the ones who can access it individually, coz there're quite plenty of them.
It would be even more impressive if you guys could make another upgrade... just an idea. I luv multiply anyway. (^__^)b
I agree with the previous posters requesting in easier way to separate categories between online buddies and normal friends.
Pls also make my Message Board easier to customize in more detail. For example, I have a contact who posts TV program schedules as events, and it's cluttering my board, but I don't mind his other posts (blog, reviews, etc). I would like to filter out his Events.
Will it ever be possible to have asymmetric relationships? ie, I might want to have SomePerson as just an Online Buddy (because I like reading his stuff, but not so much interested in his friends') but he/she might want to have me as a Friend so they can see my network.
It's an interesting idea, but the relationships you choose should really reflect reality, and it's at least a little unlikely in real life that someone would be close enough to you to know all your friends, while you know none of theirs. :)
On the contrary, we all have lop-sided relationships. You cannot tell me that every one of your friends holds you in exactly the same level of esteem as you hold them? Multiply's relationships enforce an unnatural degree of symmetry. If I choose to share my personal blog entries with someone (by making my relationship with them in the "family" category for example) why should that person be forced to include me in their family circle? Is it not possible to have work colleagues that we consider friends, yet to them we may be merely work colleagues? Surely you know someone who has a friend they consider very close who in turn only just likes them back?
besides, this is not real life, but a social network. If I like reading a particular person's blog and that person is happy for me to read their blog, why should they be forced to read mine? Asymmetric relationships allow a greater degree of control and freedom over who can read your material without necessarily inflicting yours on them. ;^)
I could name a number of my Multiply relationships that should ideally be asymmetrical - people whose material I want to read but who don't particularly want to read mine, and people who I am happy for them to read my posts yet I could really do without reading theirs...
I agree as well. Please add this feature. I have a lot of things I wouldn't mind my "friends" seeing, but would prefer not having my "online buddies" see. I have ended up listing some of my friends as "friends of the family" instead and almost don't use the "friends" category because of this.
Is there an easy way to change a relationship when you have the mini profile pop-ups turned off?
Will it ever be possible to have asymmetric relationships? ie, I might want to have SomePerson as just an Online Buddy (because I like reading his stuff, but not so much interested in his friends') but he/she might want to have me as a Friend so they can see my network.
It's an interesting idea. I know the concept of a "fan" relationship has been discussed... i.e., the ability to be notified of a particular person's stuff, without notifying them about yours. You can do that now by grabbing their RSS, but clearly it's not the same.
Asymmetric relationships is certainly worth considering.
If you have the profile pop-ups turned off, you can still edit a relationship by viewing your Network page in a table. You'll see Edit/Remove links next to each contact.
My request pls: - asymetric relationship/fan relationship. In my contacts there's many whom I admire (mostly authors), I love reading their posts, but I don't think they're interested in mine. And I always feel guilty cluttering their message boards with my posts that wouldn't interest them.
Another request is, the ability to set my post available for public, but the person seeing it must login to multiply to view it (so I know who's viewing them).
I like the Online Buddy link - I've sued it to link more directly with some of the more distant network contacts (like "my cousin's friend's sister in law") who I find over time I have a lot in common with, and we link as Online buddies so we can see each others' tighter network posts - without necessaraily adding her husband's coworker into my network...
Whoever designed it deserves a raise. Or at least some chocolate.
I HATE "BUDDY", ok, buddy boi ???....HEhehehehehe....If your are stimulating enough for me to visit, or were acutely aware enough to visit my site, then, YOU ARE FRIEND....................Southern Hospitality reign's...........
Another request is, the ability to set my post available for public, but the person seeing it must login to multiply to view it (so I know who's viewing them).
I agree that it would be really helpful to be able to set access rights to certain posts so that only our real friends could see them. There are people I would happily have as contacts if this distinction was possible - as things stand I've had to turn down invitations as there are personal things that I wouldn't want people who don't know me to see; whereas if I could set it so that Online Buddies wouldn't have access, then I'd be able to have more regular contact with these people and get to know them more.
I also think it would be good, as has been suggested, to be able to reply to an invitation with a request for a different status, as long as we had room to explain why.
hi to all of you, its really nice reading all your post ill been here long time but i never post,this the first time i post and i thought it really nice to mingle with u guys.have a great day
ratnajanuarita wrote on Aug 12, '07, edited on Aug 12, '07
thanks to multiply for providing all great facilities to make me get connected with people around the world in a simple, fun, and multiplying way ... I learn so many things in so many ways with multiply ... thank you very very much ... warmly, ratna from indonesia ...
I second that too... I got this problem as well... Dunno to add or NOT to add "Online Buddies" as I don't want them to read entries that meant only for those category under my FRIENDS.
What I don't understand is this: after reading this, I tried changing someone's status from Online Buddy to Friend; I got a message saying he's accepted my invitation, but nothing seems to have happened - he still appears on my screen as "online buddy".
I am not sure about Online buddy becaz.I never clik someone who I contact to My Buddy Online but now I think whatever becaz now ,I have a few buddy online,they are all nice it doesn't matter for me thank you to told me .. but I wonder one thing some man become to my sister hi hi he is man.why is not my brother???
think you could add 'best friend' and 'really close friend' in the friend category? that would really be a plus!!! thanks mucho =)
Or maybe an Acquaintance category as well. These three (close friend, best friend, and acquaintance) would really define relationships instead of just 'friends' with everybody, IMO.
Or maybe an Acquaintance category as well. These three (close friend, best friend, and acquaintance) would really define relationships instead of just 'friends' with everybody, IMO.
This discussion is getting interesting! How do we define people that we're in contact with - what a social minefield... My first reaction on reading this posting was, yes, this makes perfect sense, of course I'd like to be able to make these distinctions, to say for instance that a particular posting is only for my close friends. But, you know, in real life we do this in an informal way and so don't risk offending people so much - we don't normally tell people exactly how we categorise them.
I'm thinking how hurt someone might feel if they send me an invitation to be a Friend and I ask to change their status to Acquaintance, for example.
But there is a need to have more control over access to our postings. What I'd like to see is an improvement on the List function - I've tried using that and found that if you make a list and make an item accessible only to people on that list, what appears on the screen is a list of all the individuals, which I don't feel comfortable with. But if it could be changed so that the list name would appear on the screen instead, then we could just name a list, say, close friends, or if you have a particular hobby or interest that you share with certain people, you could for instance post something just for that group.
P.S. I hope somebody on the staff actually reads through all this stuff!
hey.. yeah.. I do hope some multiply staff actually reads this!
it'd be real cool if we could segregate who sees our posts to say "Friends & Brothers & Sisters" or just "Friends". because like most people here, I have people on my list I don't know too well either and wouldn't want to share too much information with. and I totally agree with meirav's
But there is a need to have more control over access to our postings. What I'd like to see is an improvement on the List function - I've tried using that and found that if you make a list and make an item accessible only to people on that list, what appears on the screen is a list of all the individuals, which I don't feel comfortable with. But if it could be changed so that the list name would appear on the screen instead, then we could just name a list, say, close friends, or if you have a particular hobby or interest that you share with certain people, you could for instance post something just for that group.
and another thing, could we decide to delete tags? I think I have an overload of them. And perhaps, before deleting, we are informed which posts of ours are connected with that particular tag. sometimes I find it redundant at a later point as I review my posts again, so that function might be useful.
but nonetheless, you guys are still doing a great job!
"Online Buddy" Ah, it will not get back to the spouse, girl friend, boy friend???? I guess we all know how to hide our "Other" relationships that we don't want known about, LOL LOL CHEATERS PARADISE HERE WE COME! HA HA HA
But there is a need to have more control over access to our postings. What I'd like to see is an improvement on the List function - I've tried using that and found that if you make a list and make an item accessible only to people on that list, what appears on the screen is a list of all the individuals, which I don't feel comfortable with. But if it could be changed so that the list name would appear on the screen instead, then we could just name a list, say, close friends, or if you have a particular hobby or interest that you share with certain people, you could for instance post something just for that group.
Hi........I come from Indonesien but live in German ( Aachen since 30 years), I become a lot of friends from many peoples in differents country. Thanks to Multiply for providing all great opportunity to connected people. Schöne Gruesse.........from Germany. Alles Gute!!
I have a couple of outstanding invitation from possible "online buddies", which I don't know what to do with. I don't know them, one just stumbled onto another's post, thereby launching a reciprocal visit.
They'd be interesting to network with, but I certainly don't want them to be privy to really personal albums and information.They really shouldn't be on the same level as my closest friends.
Hi there! i am a tough guy and of you wanna be a friend or close relation with you. Also u can go to my email on mario_sefeti@yahoo.com and it would be glad to have online buddy also i'm still in Fiji. good bye........
Helllo All, its nice to know all of you, if there anyone wants to have chat or just share the hobbies or experience especially for those who interested in sufism please mail me at dinandridx@yahoo.com or chantique_eternity@yahoo.com. Thank you & byee.......
*sigh* amidst all the not-within-the-topic field of comments to wade through, I'm still kind of hoping that Multiply would *seriously* consider the feature request I made a while back of an "Except" tag; i.e., being able to select who *cannot* view your stuff when trying to select who can is a tad tedious.
On Multiply, your contacts are more than just generic "friends" – and your relationships with them are more than just a simple title. The relationship type you choose will determine how much of your contact's network you become connected to through your relationship with them. In addition, relationships not only help you determine which posts on your message board are worth reading... but also help us determine which users should be in your network. All relationship types serve to include new people in your network, save for one – 
That's great but I'd really like you guys to consider taking it one step further and move it up the tree. So we would end up with Family, Friends, Professionals, and Online Buddies (or similar) in the Contacts section. I've got heaps of stuff which I want my Friends to see but not my Online Buddies - mainly because I don't know them that well. So I tend to avoid having online buddies. Maybe this is one for the next upgrade...???
