Social Usability is a quality attribute that assesses how easy social interactions are to make. The checklist is built to be both a simple rule of thumb and an important guideline in the hands of a social network designer.
| Relations | Is there a way to _____? |
| findability, inside | …find other people inside the network? |
| findability, outside | …find other people outside the network? |
| separation | …see friend-of-friend’s profiles? |
| privacy | …allow or deny other’s contact? |
| keep | …keep in touch with friends? |
| — proximity | …see who is closer to myself? |
| — time | …see who I’ve lost contact with? |
| — themes | …involve your friends in common activities? |
| public relations | …broadcast yourself? |
| excellence | …give credit to relevant people you know? |
| curiosity | …receive suggestions about interesting contacts? |
| management | …categorize or group contacts? |
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Identity |
Is there a way to _____? |
| amplitude | …express yourself? |
| — mood | …express your mood? |
| — appearance | …customize your profile? |
| — person | …express your daily life? |
| — avatar | …create an online identity? |
| interests | …show your interests? |
| — offline | …show your offline interests? |
| — do | …show your online activities? |
| uniqueness | …distinguish yourself from others? |
| privacy | …show who you are to who you want? |
| group | …show your group membership? |
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Communication |
Is there a way to _____? |
| speed | …communicate quickly with your contacts? |
| — sync | …meet together to talk? |
| — async | …leave a message to someone? |
| quantity | …handle a high amount of messages? |
| — complexity | …have complex conversations? |
| — parallelism | …manage multiple conversation channels with different users? |
| — aggregability | …be supported by the system to handle many messages? |
| richness | …send and receive rich multimedia messages? |
| private conversations | …have a conversation with one person? |
| public conversations | …have a public conversation? |
| plural conversations | …have a conversation with a specific group? |
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Emergence of Groups |
Is there a way to _____? |
| findability | …find and join a group that shares an interest with you? |
| easiness | …create a group of friends or around a theme? |
| bottom-up type | …show up in a group due to the things you do? |
| liveliness | …see how much the group is active? |
| — presence | …see the online people in that group? |
| — production | …see how many contents the group does produce? |
| — subscribers | …see how many people are there in the group? |
| — frequency | …see how often people interact in that group? |
| longevity | …see how long that group exists? |
| — short | …create short-term groups? |
| — long | …create long-term groups? |
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