New Boxbe Feature: Friends of friends
January 30th, 2008 by Randy Stewart, Product Manager
We get praise and love from our adoring fans on a regular basis, but one consistent request is to make getting email from real humans easier.
Keeping your Guest List up to date isn’t an easy job. When friends change jobs or their ISPs, their email addresses change with them.
Boxbe helps you get email from people who matter to you. The problem is, you don’t always know who is going to matter to you.
Today, I’m happy to announce a feature to make using Boxbe a lot easier.
Friends
Who are your friends? If you are like me, I have hundreds of contacts on my Boxbe Guest List. Some of them are email addresses from companies like Amazon or Facebook.
The bulk of my Guest List, however, is composed of friends, family and co-workers. We’ve consolidated this group of people into a group called “Friends.”
Friends of friends
So, why should you designate someone as a friend?
If you mark someone as a friend on your Guest List and they are a Boxbe member, anyone that they have designated as a friend can email you as well.
This takes a little of the difficulty of having to update your Guest List to ensure delivery of messages from your friends. You don’t have to mark them as a friend and you can block them if it’s someone you don’t want to hear from.
How it works
As an example, this is what happens when I add Mark as a friend.
When I add Mark as a friend, all of his friends can then email me without taking a test or paying a fee. If we have a lot of mutual friends, and he updates a change in their information first, I won’t have to.
We’re adhering to the proverb that many hands make light work.
Privacy
While we’re extending your Guest List to your friends, we won’t show others a list of who you have made a friend. The only way someone will know who your friends are is if they email them. Any email that you receive from a Friend of a Friend will be marked as such.
Here is how it will look in Yahoo! Mail:
Feedback?
We’re pretty happy with what we’ve released, but please let us know if there is anything we can do to make it better.
We’re constantly thinking of ways to make Boxbe easier to use and think this will help you get emails from people who matter to you most.