Disclaimer: I was the lead sysadmin at an ivy school’s residential housing dept and cofounder of a VIP email startup. Yes (star star) For contact information,

Disclaimer: I was the lead sysadmin at an ivy school’s residential housing dept and cofounder of a VIP email startup. Yes (star star) For contact information, scheduling/coordinating, interest/news and friend-of-friend romance/friend/activity partner discovery, a social network of sufficient connectedness has obvious value. If pictures (except a standardized headshot), bragging, cyberdisinbitionism, sharing, ads, bots, fake users, state hacks, commercial spammers, influence/sentiment peddling/consent manufacturing, extremely risky selfies, undesirable radical inclusion and gossip can be eliminated/minimized, then it seems feasible to have a solid, useful social network that isn’t working against you or your friends. I think a social network like a light version of ASW for cool mortals but limited in terms of messaging, videos/pics and public/group sharing would be good... everyone whom wants to join has to be invited/vouched, pay a $499 USD one-time fee, pass a real background check and create a sufficiently complete and interesting profile in order to be reviewed for final acceptance. This way, the quality and signal of the network remains high and the worry is less... such high barriers are so that safety, comfort, value and preselection remain high and undiluted by commercial or popular pressures. Furthermore, customer funding eliminates the need for ad-support, privacy invasions and other questionable monetization schemes. Such an app would need to grow in private alpha much as FB did by first launching at large, prestigious universities where social networks are clearly valuable and worth guarding. Be somewhat open.. but not too open and not too closed.