Social networks revolutionized how people communicate. They gave regular people an easy way to broadcast what ever they like to others. In doing so, they made the world more connected than ever. However, that came at a price. Anyone can say anything to any number of followers with little regard to how those followers may do with this information, or how would they react to it or how it impacts them. Yet, people are not all the same, they react differently to what they are told. What makes one person happy, may offend another. Further more, the exponential increase in the amount of content being broadcasted made it difficult for people to figure out who to listen to, or who to believe.
This opened the way to new problems and new threats. The massive flood of new content being created became too large to consume. The indiscriminate spread of information allowed some to harvest massive amounts of private data. While others used their ability to broadcast whatever they like to confuse, lie and deceive. Bots masquerading as humans became common place, used to shift public opinions, polarize people and spread hate. Families and friends became divided over political opinions previously not easily known. Online animosity pushed people to shield themselves into echo chambers that are used to manipulate and indoctrinate users.
MiSH, the Mutual Interest Sharing Hypervisor, changes all that. Unlike other social network, it is not simply a way to publish things around. Instead, MiSH understands and maps out the complex relationship between each two individual users, allowing them connect in ways no social network currently do. MiSH doesn’t broadcast information indiscriminately. Instead, it takes into account each individual desires and opinions. Revealing only the mutually beneficial information if and when this information become useful to share.
MiSH does not depend on some obscure and mysterious "Algorithm" to drive your timeline and matches. Our patented AMINA algorithm,depends on a very transparent principle, you tell MiSH what interest you like to share and with whom. an interest can be something like a hobby, a religion, a location, a business or any other interest. MiSH keeps this information secret until such time a matching request comes from your targets and it creates a connection over that specific interest. These highly specific connections is used to guide communications so that what you say goes only to those people who share that specific connection with you.
Even your existence as user is not visible, users can add each others using unique identifiers, such as an e-mail or phone number. MiSH will NOT send invites out on your behalf. Instead, it simply retains references to those identifiers until such time those people add you back using your own identifiers and then the connection is made.So you are free to add your entire contact list, coworkers, or neighbors, without having to worry about them rejecting your request or being uncomfortable at the invite. It will only connect you with those who also wants to connect to you
Once connected, you will only be connected over what you have in common. You can post about any
All connections you have between yourself and each of your contacts are marked with a specific interest. These connections are fully viewable to you, you can edit them as you like, cut them altogether, or silence them temporarily if you prefer.
When you make a post, that post is marked with a specific interest, and goes only to those who share that interest with you. Consequently, your news feed contain posts about things you are interested in, from those people you have designated as interesting in that aspect. If anyone is posting about an interest you do not want to see, you can specifically cut or mute that individual connection, without unfriending or unfollowing that person entirely. So you can continue to see family news from your uncle and talk about football and fishing with them, while blocking his political rants
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What one person admires about you may be exactly what another abhors. We are all complex people with many opinions, interests, and views. But we tend to see the differences before the similarities. How many relationships get ruined because the first thing one person sees in another is something they don't like, while in fact, they may have much more in common
Because MiSH only connects people over what they have in common, you only see what you think is the good aspects of everyone filtered by your own views. Others too will only see in you what they like, leaving away anything aspects of your characters they might not like.
With MiSH, you no longer have to worry about loosing your friends over political or religious disagreements. You do not have to worry about them judging you over an aspect of your character that they might not like before they see what they do like about you.
Each time you add a new contact, MiSH will compare both of your general interests and build an instant profile of all things you have in common and not mention anything about those interests that are not shared. This will help you create an instant connection the moment you add a new person in your contact list. Your future best friend may be just the person who works two cubicles down who you only know as a coworker. MiSH can help you discover that you both share a long list of interests, opinions and hobbies.
MiSH will only make connections if and when the connection is requested from both sides, otherwise it remains strictly a secret only you and MiSH know. This starts from adding a contact, you can add who you like as long as you know an identifier for them, but they do not know about it until they add you back. After that, any interest you share with a specific target, will only be viewable to those who shared the same interest.
This doesn't mean you will have to waste your time managing person by person. Most interests you have are general, these you can target to your entire contact list. MiSH will go through your contact one by one and create the relevant connections only with those who share the same interest. Whether it is a political stance, sexual orientation, your love of Anime, or being a nudist, only those who have marked these things as their own interests will see that you have them. For all the rest, they will see no reference to them in your profile, leaving them to guess whether you are indifferent or hold an opposing view.
When can you say 'I love you' for the first time ? Would your cute co-worker accept your flirting or would they consider it harassment? Would your employees be happy to cover extra shift or would they be pressured into accepting them ? Will your neighbor be happy to join your backyard BBQ or are they Vegan ?
All these questions have one thing in common. If the answer is "No", the damage is done, and an uncomfortable situation follows. MiSH gives you the chance to ask the question in a way that your target only gets it if the answer will be yes. otherwise the question remain hidden, and the situation averted or delayed until such time the other person is ready for it.
MiSH does no background tracking, everything MiSH knows about you is information you give to MiSH explicitly, and you can edit it anytime you want. Right in your home screen, you can add or remove any interest you have in general. You can delete any of it at any time. You can also edit the profile of every contact you know in an easy and intuitive way.
In MiSH, you only see and interact with people you added to your account. You do not have to worry about a newsfeed clogged with promoted contents masquerading as posts from real people. No one can see your posts without being in your network that you picked yourself.
It is normal for people to seek support on those who share their opinions with them, but the current forms of social media have created echo chambers out of this desire. Spaces where one opinion is accepted became attractive to the people who like that opinion, but these spaces come with "packages" of opinions that are often unrelated. People get labeled with a broad label such as "liberal" or "conservative" depending on one opinion they express, even if the rest of their opinions don't conform to that label.
MiSH aims to eliminate such artificial barriers by connecting people over shared specific opinions rather than broad labels. Allowing you to discuss and organize with those who share a certain view, even if they don't share other views you hold.
More importantly, you are more willing to accept discussion and opinions from those who share common ground with you. This would help foster conversation with those whom you may have otherwise written off as the "opposing team" based on a single controversial view.