"Introducing Muchcloser: a FREE service that helps keep you from forgetting about the people who are important in your life."
If they are important, you won't forget them in the first place.
If they are important, you won't forget them in the first place.
from personal experience when you're working on a big project 12-16 hours per day (6-7 days/week) - you'll be surprised at what you forget...
besides, what if you have a really big social circle?
You might want to rework it to indicate how this site helps you remember all the 'little things' that make you seem like you really care... I guess that sounds bad too, but do you see what I'm getting at? "Fred hates sushi, and Barney loves to go bowling, and remember not to ask Wilma about her divorce..."
so far the latest change is the best I can do for now... we'll probably figure out something else better sometime later
I'm notorious at not being thoughtful, mostly because I can't remember what the hell other people are doing, and even when I do, I can't act on it in a timely way. I once called up a friend around May and congratulated her for graduating. She said, thanks, but proceeded to inform me that she graduated last year. And that I had called last year to congratulate her too.
I was far too ambitious when trying to build it. I wanted it to import my inbox and tell me things about friends without me having to explicitly write it down. In addition, it'd be able to let me know who I was neglecting and compare it to who was doing the same to be based on their frequency of reply and timeliness of reply. When doing PIM (personal info management) stuff, it's always far too easy to want to do too many things. So hopefully, you guys don't go down that path and keep things tight.
Anyway, this thing isn't for everyone, and it depends on what your social network looks like and what your attitude towards relationships to people are.
If your social network is comparatively small (within dunbar's number), then it's easy to keep track of people you care about. Our brains can personally keep track of the purported 150 people or so.
If your social network consists of mostly people that know each other, then you also wouldn't need it, since you'd get what's going on with your friends through hearsay and gossip. And you can act on that information if need be (however inaccurate it might be).
However, if you know a large number of people who don't know each other, ie. lots of little groups of friends that don't know each other, then you'd have a use for something like this. In addition, if the nature of your job/life requires you to have lots of little loose confederations, this is the sort of thing you might use.
whacked is right that people MAKE time for what/who's important in their lives. However, I think the value of a CRM for your personal life is not for the people who's really important you that you'd remember with your brain, or for the people you meet once and don't really care about. It's for the people that you like, but they are not in your daily lives that you wish to keep in better touch with. In a way, it's trying to be a tool to expand the upper limit of the dunbar number for users.
Anyway, I found it a tough sell, as most people only have 2 minutes to spare at parties, and not half an hour. I also did everything wrong from not releasing early to not simplifying and focusing the system. I eventually moved on to work on another thing. So good luck to ya'll and keep us updated on your progress. Chaos, feel free to email me if you want to bounce stuff off of someone.