On 6/22/06, Tim Spalding <tim_at_librarything.com> wrote:
> The second--and more interesting--is that books are POWERFULLY social.
> They are important social markers—people self- and other-identify
> based upon what books they read. And they are powerful social
> connectors. People love to talk about their books.
Hmm, have you got your target group pinned down? Because I don't love
to talk about my books (frankly, not many would be that interested in
my books), but I'd love to talk about my movies and my music. And
maybe I'm swearing in church, but I feel the demographic for music and
movies is quite larger than books. Why are we even limiting ourselfs
to specific types of objects? Why not go and make ThingsThing?
In other words, who are your users? Sure, I've got a LibraryThing
account, it was fun at first, but then what? Now what? What does it do
for me? I would love more info on rare books on baroque music, but
such things mostly do not exsist in a popularity-driven context such
as LibraryThing. I don't think I'm unique in this respect either.
Put differently; I'd love to use some of the facilities and ideas in
LT, but right now I too wonder why people use it.
Alex
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