Sorry, what was my analogy? I'm saying distributed social networking should work like email and you just described it. However what I don't think it should be i

Sorry, what was my analogy? I'm saying distributed social networking should work like email and you just described it. However what I don't think it should be is decentrAlizing down to the user level. Another problem with standardizing the system is that new or special features will not be cross compatible, however that's another issue for another thread.