Social networking online. A little thought and an idea

Background

I, like others probably, have been worried for some time by the thought of the future development of social services. networks and communication over the Internet. And here it’s not even the speed of information exchange and its quantity, I am concerned about the quality of this information. Those. since communication is social, it is most often personal: jokes, stories, flirting, and not a discussion of the development of business projects. The sphere of business projects and commercial communication goes through Skype, waves and other things - everything is clear and understandable, there are a million tools.

Current funds

What do we have today in social networks for communication? Gifts, messages, graffiti, photos, music, videos, emoticons, pictures - all this is wonderful and wonderful. What is missing: but not enough in my opinion to see the face of the interlocutor. Yes, there are Skype with video calling, but you can’t call a person every time you want to tell him a joke or tell a life story with the whole spectrum of your emotions and experiences. For a) not everyone has the Internet so fast, b) not everyone has video cameras, c) not everyone has time to listen to you right now, d) and there is not always time to answer you right now.

My suggestion

On the Internet today there are many solutions for creating avatars. Even animated avatars. But essentially they are still static / cyclic. There are applications for the iPhone and other mobile platforms for creating avatars: B-Bot, Avatar Creator and others - in which you can draw a comic cartoon / sketch of a person’s face, and you can do it with high %% recognition. Here comes the idea: make social. the network is more lively due to live avatars. Those. transfer the emoticon function to the user's profile picture.

Perfectly

Remove all social menu. networks and when you enter your personal page display only a list of friends, but in an unusual form. In the form of a crowd of drawn characters with clouds of phrases (excerpts from messages to you, recent status updates or actions on the network, Ala posted a new photo or was tagged in the video). We click on the little man / character, he leaves the crowd and begins to report his events in chronological order, changing his face (the most ideal: to communicate this with the voice of his real master account. Voice synthesizers will soon learn how to do this after 1 voice calibration). If there is a desire to comment on something - the crowd of other characters is darkened, fading into the background, the active character is pushed back and your character appears. Enter your phrase, set the emotional mood and "speak."
A bookmark with your character, where you can write your statuses, notes, post photos, videos, join groups, you also need to shove somewhere, but this is not so important at this stage of submission.

The idea described above is aimed at conveying one main idea: to revive and make communication in social networks more emotional. A proposal for a form has been made, little things are not thought out 100%, but are given as an example.

Why not

∼t pictures in a post, boring to read?
Because a) I don’t know at all which pictures to shove here, b) I don’t know how to draw, c) it’s not about the pictures now.
∼ photos, namely animated avatars?
Because a) you won’t be able to look at them all your life, and you will want to see a person live, b) it’s more difficult to animate and store photos and more errors are possible when animating (crooked smiles, eye position, etc.)
∼ live communication, but such "Cartoon"?
Because a) it’s never necessary to throw out live communication, b) but live communication does not always coincide with your plans for work, leisure, or the plans of other participants in the conversation, c) the “cartoon” is designed to revive in my opinion boring, homogeneous social networks and communication in them.
∼ began to do this himself, but laid out the idea here?
Because a) I could have missed something on the Internet, and somewhere they had already come up with it and did it, b) a large audience - more opinions and more effective discussion, c) it is possible that anyone present here can do this.

For now, let's discuss in the comments.