This is one of the many reasons I want to find a way to replace all my various social networking sites with just this WordPress install on this domain.
Drug wars, zombie bitting, all these BS apps are all the more reason to get away from Facebook.
There is one major hurdle that I haven’t figured out how to clear just yet. I want to be able to make different posts available to different users, and put them in groups.
For example:
I want to be able to select either the group ‘friends’ and have everyone in that group be able to see the post, or select ‘Billy’, someone who is in the group ‘friends’ and only have Billy be able to see the post. ‘Everyone’ would go to everyone who has an account, and ‘guest’ would go to anyone who isn’t logged in.
Naturally I would just use the regular WordPress account system.
But in all reality, this may work better with other CMSs than WordPress, like ExpressionEngine or Drupal, or even MovableType.
Does anyone have any advice/suggestions for doing such a thing?
Sounds like you’d need a little bit of customization no matter which platform you went with. I agree, FaceBook is trash. You would have to assume that the people that you actually cared about would be willing to deal with a separate site/login to continue to “follow” you.
Although you could always allow people to use their facebook credentials to log into your site, or at least OpenID.
Very true. However the people I would be trying to reach, Grandparents etc, would be willing to make an account and log it in if all they had to do was the register my RSS feed on their bookmark bar (which they have done right now actually). I’m really looking to target people who aren’t in Facebook etc.