I agree with you that people don't want to micromanage (the means) but I do think people want to segment their social sharing (the ends). I think the trick wil

I agree with you that people don't want to micromanage (the means) but I do think people want to segment their social sharing (the ends). I think the trick will be to figure out an interface where you can share this way, without it feeling like a pain/micromanaging, etc., and I think this will require a paradigm shift. Any solution that is, essentially, a "facebook tweak" (whether it's by facebook themselves or diaspora, or whoever) will always be cumbersome. I think to solve this problem a new paradigm is required, one that replaces the ultimately inaccurate social metaphors of facebook (friend requests, wall posts, news feed, status updates, private inbox messages), with a totally new approach that comes at these problems in a different way (for instance, a unified feed with messages organized by group, as a replacement to all of the features listed above).