{"id":52777,"date":"2019-08-04T13:47:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T19:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/?p=52777"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:43:24","slug":"how-to-run-a-small-social-network-site-for-your-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-to-run-a-small-social-network-site-for-your-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"How to run a small social network site for your friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Since August 2018 I have run a social network site called Friend Camp for about 50 of my friends. I think Friend Camp is a really nice place, and my friends seem to agree that it has enriched our lives. I&#8217;d like to see more places like Friend Camp on the internet, and this document is my attempt to provide some practical guidance as to how you might run a social network site like this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/runyourown.social\/?fbclid=IwAR12AS_vWaunDZJfjrNVcyTSn_MytFMIe1vdKUCdpSOSx0KmgC0UciHup78\">How to run a small social network site for your friends<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a project by Anil Dash. It reminds me of the work of Robin Dunbar whose Dunbar Number theorizes the maximum number was of active relationships a human person can sustain. The project is an attempt to make accessible the knowledge to create bespoke, artisinal, social networks.<\/p>\n<p>We once taught this stuff at the University of Denver, when we had a program called Digital Media Studies. At that time we found it difficult to populate new social networks with enough vibrance to be self-sustaining. I wonder if there is a minimum number necessary for this.<\/p>\n<p>It brings to mind another social phenomena named by Brian Eno, scenius. His critique of the myth of the lone genius is that a scene, or a network of interpersonal relationships, facilitates creative acts.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what is the smallest number of humans, or of relationships, in a location that are necessary to support the existence of scenius? What are the spatio-temporal boundaries that parameterize scenius?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since August 2018 I have run a social network site called Friend Camp for about 50 of my friends. I think Friend Camp is a really nice place, and my friends seem to agree that it has enriched our lives. I&#8217;d like to see more places like Friend Camp on the internet, and this document [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,2082,10],"tags":[1834,360,511,781,649,351,921,2004,533],"class_list":["post-52777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communities","category-tumblr-archive","category-words","tag-community","tag-creative-economy","tag-creative-practice","tag-emergent-digital-practices","tag-relationships","tag-social-media","tag-social-network","tag-teaching-tumblr","tag-tumblr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-dJf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52778,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52777\/revisions\/52778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}