Becoming a Node on the Social WAN
Whether they realize it or not, when people talk about a “social network,” they’re talking about a social LAN. All the profiles in Facebook or MySpace or Orkut or wherever are on the same network - they’re Local. What we need to be thinking about and putting in place is a social WAN - a fully distributed system where everyone completely controls their own profile, friends, and other data, and these are pushed out to the edges of the networks. ...