> An ideal Facebook would have been a directory of people and their connections. People can message each other, post text updates and pictures. AKA Email. Ser

> An ideal Facebook would have been a directory of people and their connections. People can message each other, post text updates and pictures. AKA Email. Seriously, somebody needs to build an email client that makes maintaining incoming/outgoing mailing lists and filtering your inbox very easy, and offers a few extra "friend discovery" search features. You would probably have a facebook killer. A lot of people think "social networking" is a new kind of thing. But it's just a fancy UI on top of email.