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A window has two main viewing states.

You can either look 'at' a window, or you can look 'through' a window.

huh? What the hell does this have to do with social networking?

Social networking is not the beginning of social. Experience is the beginning of social, social is just a way to share and solicit experiences.

So with this in mind, what are the different types of 'experience' going on in the window analogy.

Looking "through" the window is being in the moment, looking through the glass and seeing the world without the frame, taking experiences as they come and letting them exist inside of you as memories, allowing them to shape you and then letting that change in character effect others. Through is just living and being.

Looking "at" the window is seeing the glass, seeing the frame and putting all experience through a context. The context here is the social capital or the commodification of that experience for in order to enhance perception of self.

'At' is translating all experience into trade-able emotional commodity.

If you live in the 'at' state you live in a "what used to need to be seen, now needs to be shared to be believed."

Experiences become worthless unless A) you can prove that they happened, B) that you can show it to someone.

Just my thoughts

Thanks for the positivity and feedback. This is what I was hoping to get from posting here.

We aren't going to hide the fact that other people will write the cards, infact we want to celebrate it. We want the writers of the cards to be a big part of the product. I think that is the only real way to "short circuit" the issue. Having written a number of the cards you begin to make the words more interesting, you add little doodles. The people who have received cards so far seem to like it. It's a bit like when the pizza delivery guy draws a unicorn on the box when you put in special request.

I am self funding this project right now and there are some typo's in the how it works page. I agree with you 100% that needs to be sorted. We have been live now for a week and the UX stuff is top of the agenda. Our back end is quite robust and seems to be functioning without issue. So thats a good thing.

This is MVP 1.0 and in the lean tradition we kinda tried to keep features to the bare bones. If people like the service we are going to develop it as much as possible and make it as simple and fun as possible.

Features to be added: - Searchable friends yep. - Faster page loads yep - Choice of delivery yep

Really glad you like it and can see the potential

Create better memories :)