> This isn't to say that Twitter and Facebook don't get a lot of things right, too, in terms of ease of posting, lack of friction, and (for both better and wors

> This isn't to say that Twitter and Facebook don't get a lot of things right, too, in terms of ease of posting, lack of friction, and (for both better and worse) monetization, but I wish "granularity of acces control" had been a lesson we'd carried forward. Facebook had incredible granularity with regard to who could view one's posts — then they nerfed it by letting the people who are on your "lists" view who else is on them. (I'm private enough to not want people to know that they're on my Close Friends list with 30 other people.) There was a way to get around this nerf by including a "smart list" in your set, but Facebook recently removed "smart lists" altogether. My Facebook post privacy settings are a mess now, and I also gave up and stopped posting anything personal. (I wanted to add that I used LiveJournal a lot in the early 2000's, and their friend list feature was amazing.)