Social Features

Friend connections and social interactions in Logbook.

Overview

Logbook's social features are built around authentic friend recommendations rather than algorithmic suggestions. Users follow friends to see what they're reading and get trusted recommendations.

Beta Launch

• Follow/unfollow users
• Friend activity feed
• Like friend's reviews
• Comment on friend's reviews
• Share book recommendations (native IOS sharing)
• See friends who read a book
• Friend search (by name, username, email)

Post-Beta

• Friend requests (for private accounts)
• Block/mute users
• Share reading progress
• Tag friends in reviews
• Reading challenges with friends
• Gift book recommendations
• Reading buddy pairing

User Stories

• As a social reader, I want to see what my friends are reading so I can discover new books
• As a user, I want to follow friends so I get their updates in my feed
• As a user, I want to see which friends read a book so I can ask them about it
• As a user, I want to like and comment on reviews to engage with friends
• As a user, I want to share book recommendations directly with specific friends

Activity Feed

The friend activity feed shows:

• Friend started reading a book
• Friend finished a book
• Friend rated a book
• Friend reviewed a book
• Friend added book to TBR

Activities are grouped intelligently (e.g., "3 friends finished this book") and sorted chronologically.

Privacy Model

• Profiles are public by default
• Users can make profiles private (post-beta)
• Private profiles require follow approval
• Users control what activities are shared