Talk:How To - Access a User's List of Friends

From The Socknet

How to determine which fields to send?

This is a difficult problem.

Using this function, users can report on other users' data to third-parties; for example, services.

The Socknet provider must determine which fields are reasonable to copy from a friends' user profile.

I'm kind of stuck for how to determine who should be able to see email addresses (for example). It makes sense to allow the user's email client to access friends' email addresses, but how do we get the user to say "This service is my email client"? And what if the user says "This service is my email client" without understanding what an email client is? And if it's a spammer service?

Note: If we do have to ask the user directly, then we'll be able to use a redirect. That's no problem. The problem is, how do we avoid asking the user at all, or at least avoid asking him every time a service calls this function?

--Dan 01:56, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

I think we might have to enable the requester to list the fields it would like to receive and include a return field in case the user has to be redirected to his Socknet provider to say "OK". (This means, I will not be sharing my email address with my gramma, because she'll definitely click "OK" no matter what.) --Dan 20:39, 14 October 2009 (UTC)