Online community: Friend’s Corner

Online community: Friend’s Corner

Friend’s Corner is online social platform which provides a mode of interaction between people of different communities and societies. This social network has many features altogether at one place as it provides collaboration and communication between its users. Users need to sign up and then customize their account according to their desire.  Friend’s corner is friend of students as it contains all the material which is helpful for the development of their character building, contains study help materials and help solutions related to tough tasks in their study. Friend’s corner is a friend of business persons because it contains information related to all the students who are graduating from different universities so that they can get best from them for their job. Companies can post their post their new job ads and unemployed could find them and get new opportunities for their job.

                                           

Non Social benefits:

These benefits comes up for user with some form of value before gaining network benefits and this initiate when the first user startup. At Friend’s corner people can share their thoughts, can chat with others and make new friends. This also allows its users to post their pictures and share their events of life. Friend’s corner can be customized in such a as a little diary of a person and which contains his desires also and for fulfillment of those desires it has a ping system. That ping system is activated when users particular which are demand can be fulfilled easily.

Reducing initial cost:

Startup concerns are many but which intrigues most is largest cost of start-up. For this work distribution in a properly organized manner would be much of importance. This system development on startup requires 10 people who are geniuses in their work and could work for two years on the basics of Friend’s corner e.g. adding friends, adding job ads and management of each stuff, so the cost issue will be dependent upon their salaries and their style of working. A minimum estimate says that it could include ten thousand dollars and if security handling and innovation would be done than it must need more budgets. This budget could be reduced in to less than this but it mostly depends upon the team which is developing the system and their mode of working but this is indeed a larger social network which would cost much more than the required setup.

Attracting early adopters:

Early adopter is a challenge because they are the pioneer who gave their time for the evaluation and startup of service and other got attracted by their time and importance. These early adopters needs some extra benefits for their attraction and encouragement so Friend’s corner provides initial seeding and tutorial help and information about the usage of platform. Platform offers coupons and vouchers to the early users and different types of surprise gifts.

Summary and issues:

This system has larger expectation for success because it involve many innovative plan and if they are tackled in a nice way this would results in a best social networking site which tackles problem from kitchen to office and renders interest of everyone. It can have many social issues people can make fake friends and can make misuse of your provided information.

REFERENCES

Margaret Rouse (2010) Social networking. Retrieved from: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/social-networking