Showing posts with label Message. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Message. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Twitter DM: Make It Usable

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There is one feature that would make me use Twitter's Direct Message service, the Twitter feature I ignore the most right now. It is that yes, it is good only people I follow should be able to DM me. But I want a feature where if someone sends me a DM I don't like, I can block them from DMing me in the future, but I don't have to stop following them on the public Twitter.

This is a small request to make. But I don't see Twitter acting on it.

Monday, July 23, 2012

Character Limits In Email

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Imagine an email service where when someone emails you for the first time their message has a character limit of something like 200. If you never open up their emails, they stay put at 200. And their messages don't count against your inbox space.

But if you open up their email, their limit goes up to 300 or 400 characters. But if you don't reply to their email, they stay there. On the other hand you could simply ban them and their privileged 200 characters are also gone.

But if you read and reply, the character limit goes up to 500 or more. Unless you specifically click on a button that allows them limitless space.

At one end are email concepts like on Facebook where you message me because we are connected. At the other end are regular email services where anyone can send you anything.

The inbox has to be like a cellular membrane. It has to protect the cell, but it also has to selectively allow outside stuff.

Beyond this "membrane" there have to be hard core demarcations. Facebook seems to have nailed social communication. Seems like people you know really well are only so many. And I feel like Asana is cracking the code on work communication. I have been reading up on it.


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