School "friends pages"

[anotherdream]

Title
School "friends pages"

Short, concise description of the idea
Create friends page views for schools listed in the Schools Directory, similar to the friends views of individual users.

Full description of the ideaThe Schools Directory of LJ is awesome, rad and fun, and I'm not just saying that because I volunteer in keeping it clean. ;) It can be

Comments

[azurelunatic]

At the minimum for filtering, I would suggest All, Current Students, and Alumni, because those two distinctions are the most important in getting the feel of a school.

A fictional school's friendsview would be a quick and dirty way of getting the emotional pulse of any given fandom...

[ursamajor]

Ooh, I like this modification, particularly if we could add a view by year filter. It's impossible to find alumni of my high school anywhere near my age on LJ, and I know of at least three, not all of whom list said school.

[ursamajor]

... and it helps if i finish READING the suggestion first. *facepalm* *bedtime*

[azurelunatic]

Wanna bet someone is going to see this suggestion and go off shrieking that we intend to turn this into classmates.com?

[ymf]

hmm if it's similar to friends view, will it be such that you can view only if you've declared the particular school(s)? what if i refuse to declare my schools but still want to stalk everyone else? x=

[ruakh]

hmm if it's similar to friends view, will it be such that you can view only if you've declared the particular school(s)?

Nope; for example, anyone who visits http://ruakh.livejournal.com/friends/ sees my friends page, whether or not they're one of my friends.

[ymf]

so the link would be more like http://schoolname.livejournal.com/friends?

[anotherdream]

Ruakh was only providing an example that even in the current friends view structure, anyone can view anyone's friends page.

That format of URLs probably wouldn't work - there are schools with identical names, schools in all kinds of languages, with special characters and different alphabets. It would have to be done with the school ID numbers, I think. And even then, if it's done like user subdomains, there'll be overlap. :)

[pockingell]

Sounds neat!

Go for it!

[zorkfox]

I think this sounds like a fine idea. It's exactly the kind of community networking thing that LiveJournal is good at. (And please don't think I'm worried when I write this next part; I'm only saying it because someone else hasn't yet.) There ought to be a little check box beside your schools that will let you exclude yourself from this friends-like page view. I don't personally care if people from my school track me down1, but other people might, even though they want to list their schools.

1My classmates couldn't find me for our ten-year reunion, even though I haven't moved since the day we graduated. How's that for smarts? I'm in the phone book!

Re: Go for it!

[anotherdream]

Such an optout would only provide a false sense of security: you'd still be listed on the school page, and anyone could still go to your journal individually and see all your public posts.

Re: Go for it!

[zorkfox]

Ah! Very true! You see: If I would trouble to think about things just a little longer, I would avoid embarrassment. ^_^

Jen, I disagree

[buddhaharakiri]

I dunno, I don't see the need to exclude them. sounds like that would be against the spirit of fun and goodwill, and would be insulting to the members of the imaginary schools, possibly to the point that if such a plan were enacted and they were excluded, it could create a major rift in the lj community, with the real-school purists being vilified as being elitist snobs who think lowly of those "enrolled" at a fictional school