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We spent a bunch of time yesterday looking at this.  Given the personal nature of charitable giving, we decided that users might want to have control over who can see their activity and updates.  Doing a hybrid where you follow me and I follow you = friends may be too complicated for most users.  So, [...]

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  Friends vs. Followers / Following
I was pondering connection models this morning for Givvy.  At some level, the concept of friends - which is how 99% of all social sites seem to organize connections - makes sense.  We could go with the Facebook model here at Givvy and allow people to invite other [...]

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