Consideration of Social Factor
At the beginning of our team’s decision-making, we found that networks are taking us far away from our real life step by step. When people are talking about the social networks or social websites, the key points are usually convenience, speedily, easy to find old and new friends and so on. However, what is about the downside of current social networks. The current social networks give us a fictitious society, devour our real social life. For example, in our contacts list of Facebook, there must be some people whom we just met once or never met. Sometimes we can chat with these people by social networks, but what will happen if we face them after a long time. Are these people are our real friends? Another problem is that current social networks bring us too much unnecessary information. These unnecessary information always cover up the tracks of close friends. As time passes, close friends become unfamiliar.
As a result of these reason, we want to make the social networks more realistic. Except some familiar social networks such as the Twitter and the Linkedin, the contact of our phone is also an “old style” social network and it is more realistic. At least, there is nearly no one whom we never met. Hence we selected phone contact as our base.
If the contacts in user’s phone are willing to share their GPS location, the user can also know where they are. We think that this function is a key point to make the social life realistic, because that friend a really there on the GPS map.
Our App also provides statistics function. Every communication between the user and contacts can be recorded. After some calculation and processing, our App can tell the user who are your close friends and who you contact frequently. This outcome will also used to distinguish information when you browse you social networks. The information of the people who you contact frequently can be shown with priority.
Our App also provides traditional social network function. It can be treat as an all-in-one client-side of social websites. User can browse the content from their social website and write comment.