FACET: COLLABORATIVE LIFE JOURNAL

We’re currently limiting it a specific network; however, if you know someone in the Facet network, they can create a memory with you, and you’ll receive an invite.

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It is oddly unfair that people walk around with memories of us and of our loved ones that we’ll never get to experience because of distance or time or passing. They carry fragments of our friends and family with them that could create a more resolved whole, but we rarely have access to all of the pieces.

But if we were to open up and share these pieces, we could better paint the pictures of who people were and how they related.

This concept, this platform, is a place to gather and align these parts of each other that we carry around; it's a place to reconstruct a whole from seemingly disparate pieces threaded through different people and at different points in time.

Being “remembered” used to be dependent on wealth and notoriety. However, now, the recording of your life is no longer dictated by whether the memory of you is worth the paper/data it has to be written on.

Data/storage is relatively free and expansive; we should be able to know people not just by what they post of themselves but also what pieces of them are carried by others.

There's no reason that 100 years from now, my great, great, grandson shouldn't be able to look me up and learn about me. He wouldn't need to look at pictures of other people and places to get an "idea" of what 2022 was like; he should be able to know that on Feb 11th at 1am, his great, great grandfather was sitting in his office in Manhattan Beach, CA, listening to "More Than This", by Peter Gabriel as he wrote this .

My grandson's grandson should be able to see the house and room it was written in, maybe get a sense for the lighting and the mood; maybe even see that I keep repeating the song from 2:50 to 5:15 mark because those parts create literal chills for me. And from this he should be able to untangle the threads of who I was, who we were, and maybe who we were to each other, being able to gaze backwards on shared timelines back to unravel who I was. There is something beautiful in that ability.

This is about the joy of sharing with someone that they endure with you, that they are living on and preserved, that they are and will be immortal.

We don’t support outside links to news sites or blogs or articles.

We will never support nor cultivate an influencer culture.

We will not be a lever to drive political divides between each other.

We will focus on sharing memories and building timelines vs. creating a divisive advertising engine.

Facet is not for public consumption. It’s for you and your network only.

Facet is not about self-promotion or influencers.
The app is made to celebrate others, not yourself. The app is about recording memories and impacts with other people not self aggrandizement and advertising a brand. We will never permit influencers.

Facet is not about right now
Facet is about your past and your history and building who you are from who you were. It’s not about recording a moment that will be erased as soon as it’s recorded, it’s about a moment to be remembered.

Facet is about what’s important to you
It’s not about creating a daily deluge of media and advertisements, it’s about finding the moments you’ve shared with others and communicating those impacts with them as they communicate with you.

The Timeline
One of the major differences with Facet is how it can put your events on the your timeline. You can choose the date for events and have them show up in the order of your life.

Objects/Pictures
Take photos of things you’ve kept around the house or in the garage or in a shoebox and correlate them on a timeline while letting people know that you still think of them, and then have those moments show up on their timeline.

Music
Track music and songs that mattered to you on the timeline and share with people.

Quotes and Sayings and even Emails / Text
Share quotes that you remember with people. Share an email or an exchange with someone and save it in line with the time it was made

“But I can do this on Instagram/Facebook/et al”
You can. You can take photos of things and let people know you thought of them, but then it’s gone. It’s lost in the deluge of everyday photos and entertainment that come up in your feed. And it won’t put the memory on their timeline in the proper place. It’s just there, floating whenever you thought of it getting pushed further away from you by the wave of new posts put in front of it.

It’s simple by design.

Facet is a return to simpler form of social media with the narrow scope of simply letting people share memories with each other. We differ from other forms in that:

We don’t support outside links to news sites or blogs or articles.

We will never support nor cultivate an influencer culture.

We will not be a lever to drive political divides between each other.

We will focus on sharing memories and building timelines vs. creating a divisive advertising engine.

Facet seeks to avoid the complexities and machinations that made it difficult to us and enjoy current social media.

We currently only support iOS. If Facet grows, we’ll move to support Android as well.

We’re currently working on how that would be handled.

There is a beauty in the idea of a group of people collectively sharing their moments, songs, quotes, images, objects, and thoughts on someone who has passed away. There’s a brilliant sense of discovery to seeing how other people knew someone that you knew and realizing that you knew them in different ways.

There is value to this. There is healing in this. We are looking at it and prototyping it in earnest.