I think for a single tech platform to enable a community to grow through what are obviously different phases of community growth it needs to evolve with the community. How it does that I'm not sure but I imagine you end up enabling a lot of the feature fb supports.
1-1 private chat
1-n private chat
1-n public chat (groups)
1-* public chat (statuses)
At some point though, the noise must get too much so allowing people to selectively filter out noise (and automatically doing it) becomes a must.
I think for a single tech platform to enable a community to grow through what are obviously different phases of community growth it needs to evolve with the community. How it does that I'm not sure but I imagine you end up enabling a lot of the feature fb supports.
1-1 private chat
1-n private chat
1-n public chat (groups)
1-* public chat (statuses)
At some point though, the noise must get too much so allowing people to selectively filter out noise (and automatically doing it) becomes a must.