DISQUS

I forgot to write that i LOVE this photo! And it's a great idea to post it. You have the privilege to do so. Leveraging that is important.

Thanks for your response - it's very much appreciated. Your comments on wanting to be visible remind me of a critical tension that is at play in the narratives around social network sites. MySpace, at a core, is all about being AS VISIBLE AS POSSIBLE. This is true technologically and for a huge chunk of its audience. Facebook, on the other hand, prided itself on being the anti-MySpace. Part of how it publicly differentiated itself was through the network-driven privacy structure. This is how they avoided all of the public damage when the Attorneys General and Congress went after MySpace. This is how they earned the trust of parents who heard of horror stories about MySpace. This is how they became an institution for so many of the early adopters. The 30+ crowd does not have such neatly contained networks, especially the kind of 30+ crowd that FB attracted. Their friends are not geographically proximate, they are not connected to one school or company network. Thus, that structure doesn't work for the new audience. And then there are people like you who WANT to be public, want to be visible to everyone and anyone, want to be as searchable as possible. The difference between you and most MySpace folks who are seeking such public attention is that you have it already. (Cuz structurally, you fit far more into MySpace's paradigm than Facebook's...) How is Facebook going to open up to manage what you want and still be protective for its early adopters? Why are their defaults public-centric when the public people know how to make themselves more public but the private-minded folks often don't know how to protect themselves?

ROFL. I didn't realize this. Suh-weeeeet!

Scoble - are you aware of my article on friending? You might appreciate it: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_12/boyd/

Wow - congrats and welcome!!!