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Profile Interests Tab - Does Anyone Use it?

Tegg Bode
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Join date: 12 Jan 2007
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09-20-2009 10:25
Yep, move Language to the front and dump the page, maybe even the notes page too as I have never used that or found anyone who uses it in 2 years of SL. It would be easy enough to make a notecard filing system on people you met anyway.

They could probably drop the partner tab too if it weren't making a pitance income for LL to leave it there. It's not hard to write "Partnered to Teresa Green" in the top of your profile description.
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Pussycat Catnap
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Join date: 15 Jun 2009
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09-20-2009 10:25
From: Vania Chaplin
In fact, I think that language info should be in the first tab.


First tab has enough in it already. People who want to know the language can do the work to click once.

I'd put partner from first tab into second tab... Put all the oddball stuff in one place.
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Dana Hickman
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Join date: 10 Oct 2006
Posts: 1,515
09-20-2009 11:01
I like the *idea* of the interests tab, just not how they have it implemented. It could be a great source of compatability/likes/dislikes/convo starters/RP info if they just redid it, and I think that definately does belong in the profile.

I'm much less sure about a friends tab as we've all pretty much seen what people choose to "shoutout" now in the picks area. "Iwuv yooz soo much" or "don't f**k with this person or I'll..." is about the extent of it typically. How does that benefit the reader, who is nearly always going to be someone interested enough in the profile owner to read it? I'm not seeing how a list of a persons favorite friends actually gives *any* useful info about THAT individual. Sure you might glean a few basic details about the depth of a certain friendship/relationship from that, but mostly shoutouts are about *other* people. Then again, I may be the only one who thinks social networking should be feature-rich, functioning social before they try to network it.
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Kira Zobel
Registered User
Join date: 6 Jan 2006
Posts: 345
09-20-2009 11:21
Okay, am I one of the few that reads them then? o_o
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