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I strongly disagree, social graphs are contextual and it makes sense to have different graphs for different social networks. When I friend someone on Facebook I

I strongly disagree, social graphs are contextual and it makes sense to have different graphs for different social networks. When I friend someone on Facebook I am not agreeing to share some other info with them that I produce on a totally different site. And finding friends is not the hard part of using a new site. The network effect comes from people actually using the site, not from finding your friends, so this wouldn't make social networks more competitive.

Barrin92 7y ago
It's entirely possible to leave this choice to the user who can determine what information they want to expose to whom while stile maintaining compatible standards for the platforms themselves. This is essentially how the federated Mastodon network already works. Or for example, facebook, instagram, whatsapp and their new dating service which is all interconnected but optional.
symplee 7y ago
Like an unlisted phone number?
johnchristopher 7y ago
Albeit cumbersome you can choose to share things only with some of your friends of your Facebook account. You can set up barrier inside the account, you can also setup multiple account.