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I think most people she want to share a pic and tag their friends. I don't think people want something so complicated.

• vidarh 8y ago
  It doesn't need to be that complicated. The Google+ model let you do what you suggest, but also let you assign people to one or more circles, so that you could share with specific subsets of your friends by picking a circle. E.g. "family", "people it's ok to share pics from nights out partying with", "work colleagues" etc., and you can assign people to more than one circle. It provided a decent basis for enough containment, if it wasn't for their lack of willingness to deal with pseudonyms and multiple identities. As for "most people" wanting something simple: I'd argue that most people have something far more complex today: People sign up to multitudes of sites and create different identities for e.g. dating, different forums, their regular circle of friends. People often go to great lengths to separate them. People even often have multiple accounts on the same sites. Sites like Facebook stubbornly trying to get people to tie everything to a single name that they're know to by everyone is fundamentally flawed for this reason, and it will always present a barrier, and it's something that's exploitable if someone comes up with the right model to start eating away at them at the fringes.