I see software development differently

I find it very interesting that the authors mixed the interpersonal with the technology characteristics to create measurement models, and that people trust Facebook as a quasi-person and as a technology.

In my perspective this trust goes from the origin of not just trusting technology but the people behind this technology, since people are finally who develop systems. Actually I trust more technology because I know that a big website has been developed with high standards of quality. But what about low budget tech apps or applications (web or desktop)? Actually I need more time using an app of that kind to trust in it.

At the beginning of the aggrupation of characteristics I didn’t agree to all of them, for example functionality to competence, because I see functionality as a group of functions that an application compliance, and I see competence as a way people can compliance certain task. So, from my point of view both characteristics don’t match well. Then I realized that the authors were relating the more similar “conceptual wise” attributes.

I do believe that social networking is a very interesting field to study because it kind of mixes the trust to the people to each other and also the level of trust to the technology.

 
Other really notable finding by the authors was that technology trust was a more powerful predictor than interpersonal trust. I really thought that in social networking interpersonal trust was more powerful than technology trust 

From now on, I see software development differently. I will try to put more focus on the interpersonal part of it. As an IT profession I always focus on the technical site of the application. However I have developed front end applications where I focused more on the ease to use than any other characteristic, and that is just a small part of getting a user fell trust on an application.