Signal Patterns: Just another place to “connect?”
July 17, 2008 by Colleen Coplick
Filed under Social Media
There’s lots of places online for people to hang out. FriendFeed, Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, even MySpace. I know there’s more I haven’t mentioned.
When I saw a friend playing with Signal Patterns, I thought it might be cool to check out, until I realized that although it’s fun, it’s just another social networking site. One more place trying to fight for my, and my friend’s attention. Great.
The first part of the site is a personality test – which is essentially just Myer’s Briggs only prettier! (this is pretty accurate though)
After you get your results, you have an opportunity to connect with your friends who have also completed their quizzes and compare notes. Except, um, we already did that via IM and email. Once I realized I had to go searching for them, I didn’t bother taking the second step. (image source, screenshot by me)
Signal Patterns has another quiz you can take to determine what kind of music you should be listening to, and has you listen to and rate a series of clips. For me, that required more effort than I was prepared to put in. Headphones, reorganizing etc etc.
In the end, it was fun seeing my personality in the pretty colours above, and I might go take the music one at some point, but I’ve already got several places I connect with friends online. I don’t have the energy to devote time to another site.
Colleen,
Thank you for your comments. I wanted to point out that our survey is not based on Myers-Briggs. The MBTI is an instrument that categorizes people into 16 categories. Our survey is based on the Big 5 theory (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits) which is much more elaborate and one of the leading tools to accurately assess personalities. We provide up to 45 facets to describe each person and each of these facets is further broken down into two sides giving us a vocabulary of 90 words to describe some one uniquely. This makes for a very accurate and unique description — much more than the 1 of 16 descriptions that you would get from MBTI.
Very cool. Can we get in on the beta? :)