Yeah, I agree after thinking about it. Connecting other social networks makes it difficult to distinguish Friendster as an intimate and honest platform free of spam.
The intimacy levels can be IRL (when you tap phones), Phone (when you friend via phone number) and Email (when you friend via email address). You could also measure the intimacy hierarchy / rank by keeping track of events (should events become a feature) you attend with other friends.
I agree. There should be a hierarchy of intimacy, as it were, in order to initiate a friendship.
* Tapping Phones
* Confirming Phone Number
* Confirming Email
* Connected via Other Platforms (Facebook, Twitter, BlueSky, etc)
As far as maintaining a friendship by tapping phones, again, I would make the friendships a constant and graph / rank intimacy by how often you tap phones as well as how connected you are to your friend (phone, email, connections on other networks).
I love this framework, pun intended. I made a clone of Atari's Missile Command with it many years ago when the Portal / Mario mashup game made with LÖVE was popular. https://github.com/chadpaulson/missile-command
The market forces (the Jack Dorseys of the world) have made the decision for us. I have since attempted to embrace automatic programming / vibe coding and have seen interesting results. AI is a tool and we are living through the infancy of its evolution. I have concerns, not counting the current DoW drama with Anthropic and OpenAI. The next 5 years will significantly shape the direction of AI and how it is implemented in our workflows and every day lives. I'd rather involve myself and help shape its future instead of pretending it doesn't exist because I don't want to deal with it.
I've heard good things about carbon steel. Particularly, nitrided carbon steel. The pans are treated to be non-stick and are safe. It's what Alton Brown, the host of Food Network's Good Eats who also just launched a new cooking show on YouTube, uses.
I use ceramic, but recently learned that nitrided carbon steel pans are the way to go. They are both useful AND safe. Do yourself a favor and invest in one.
The intimacy levels can be IRL (when you tap phones), Phone (when you friend via phone number) and Email (when you friend via email address). You could also measure the intimacy hierarchy / rank by keeping track of events (should events become a feature) you attend with other friends.