Now In 600+ Schools, Lore Gives Higher Ed A Next-Gen Social Network

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"That’s because context is key for social networks, Cohen says. Students don’t want to 'friend' their professors on Facebook (or connect with them on LinkedIn in any significant capacity) and they don’t want to broadcast photos from last night’s party to the world of family members and grandmas on Facebook."

Hasn't Google+ essentially solved a generalization of this problem with Circles? Creating a whole new account just to keep your networks separate seems very clunky (and highly inelegant) by comparison.

I logged in to write essentially the same thing. Google+ has a lot of features to solve multi-class problems. An interesting thing would be web-based tools that Google could develop and release for different circles such that people could administer and run those circles on different parameters. I guess, the Google+ platform could enable apps that would do this. For e.g., creating a Lore-like app, that would allow you to create a blackboard for your circle, and a family-center app for your family, and such.

The UI/UX for g+ is not very well designed. Such a let down, because gmail works very well. Now LORE, its is beautiful. Given how Facebook has also dragged its behind in terms of UI/UX, it wouldn't surprise me if LORE takes over them in the college niche/market. What will be interesting to see is how will FB react to this. I don't think they can keep buying competitors.

Although the lore.com landing page tells me absolutely nothing, it is absolutely beautiful.

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