Scratch

I like it!

DarthPickley wrote:

I have in the past had many people add me as their friend / follow me. I get a notification every time.
However, I delete the notifications because it would be hard not to.
Unfortunately, now I can't find every person who is following me (If they are my friend, I know)

If they added a feature that you can see all of the users who have you on their friends list, it would be helpful to be able to make friends
(also I could selfishly boost my ego by seeing how many people added me to their friends)

also, I think that social networking, although it should not be the primary focus, can be very helpful in discovering projects and creators who make similar projects, as in if a lot of users on your friend list have them on their friend list (and they aren't already on your friend list), the site could point out that user and you could go see their projects.

I mean, I am part of a minority subgroup of scratchers who are less widely popular on the front page ( mathy people ) and a lot of people in this group are friends with each other. I would rather be able to see the projects of those with similar interests than the more popular groups ( animators ).

Not to mention that it would help new scratchers become part of the community easier.

Well, I keep a list on my computer saying who friended me. 

I like the current system BUT I think you should be able to stop being someone's friend.

ellscharstark wrote:

I like the current system BUT I think you should be able to stop being someone's friend.

You can!    Just go to "all friends" on your page, and click the X

who r u

That sounds pretty cool.

scimonster wrote:

DarthPickley wrote:

I have in the past had many people add me as their friend / follow me. I get a notification every time.
However, I delete the notifications because it would be hard not to.
Unfortunately, now I can't find every person who is following me (If they are my friend, I know)

If they added a feature that you can see all of the users who have you on their friends list, it would be helpful to be able to make friends
(also I could selfishly boost my ego by seeing how many people added me to their friends)

also, I think that social networking, although it should not be the primary focus, can be very helpful in discovering projects and creators who make similar projects, as in if a lot of users on your friend list have them on their friend list (and they aren't already on your friend list), the site could point out that user and you could go see their projects.

I mean, I am part of a minority subgroup of scratchers who are less widely popular on the front page ( mathy people ) and a lot of people in this group are friends with each other. I would rather be able to see the projects of those with similar interests than the more popular groups ( animators ).

Not to mention that it would help new scratchers become part of the community easier.

Well, I keep a list on my computer saying who friended me. 

I waited around 10 days for spark's "who friended me". Just kidding 

I like the idea of the only friend people if they friend you back thing, just as long as there is the follow/watch thing. 

i like the following idea i have some people how have friended me but i don't wont to friend them

Haiming wrote:

How do you get onto the Scratch team?

Get into college at MIT, then we'll see about you being on the Scratch Team. 

I Like the new friend system idea, But I Like the current one better. So I'd say keep.

I think this idea is great, because sometimes, people only add people as friends to see what they make.

fungirl123 wrote:

I like the current friending system. The reason I usually friend people is because I like their projects and I want to see more. If we changed that, I couldn't keep track of great projects 

Why not have both? The current friend system isn't even friending. It's following, but it's called friending. So why not have friend AND follow?