We don't think of Home that way, but there is an element of helping people know each other. We intentionally haven't built any liking, following, or even posts on Home. Home excels at taking information Stripes produce elsewhere -- in code, documents, and so on -- and surfacing that up through common interfaces to improve access for all; on the people side, Home excels at helping folks learn about others they might not have otherwise met (we're a distributed company and so it's not as easy as seeing someone in the hall). This part of the post attempts to speak to that:

> Home can’t paint the complete picture of the person behind the page, but it helps break the ice. Outside Home, we encourage people to meet in person—one of our more structured approaches involves a chat bot that helps schedule lunches among Stripes who are least likely to know each other (more than 5,000 lunches have been facilitated since it was set up!).

At the most basic level, knowing who works for what team, who is the team manager, who reports to who, etc can be a challenge. Having a single source of truth company directory is key. We had several HR systems and their data was not in sync and rarely correct.

Next, knowing who to talk to in an organization comes down to your ability to network. As a dev, you could ask your manager, who hopefully has a clue about the org structure, but a tool like this can directly link people based on role, skill set, or area of function.

At company social events, I'd interact and chat with people on other teams, sales, bizdev, marketing, and let them know what we (engineering) was working on, and those conversations would open up several opportunities for my teams.

It's easy to dismiss this as something like "facebook.internal" but if I understand this tool correctly, it's far far more valuable to an organization than a place to put up selfies.