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Has anyone besides me noticed that the trend of social networking sites has been to gather as many contacts as possible and then inundate them with with posts that don’t really pertain to anything they want to hear (or read) about? It is as if we are meant to believe that our networking contacts want to hear about the party we are planning for this weekend, or that our friends want to hear about our next corporate meeting.
Let’s examine this theory: I have accounts with several social networking sites, the two most popular we will call “Race Took” and “Plitter”. On these sites I have a contacts list that contains some family, friends, my wife-to-be, and some fellow bloggers. Every morning I check both of these sites to see what’s going on. “Race Took” will have about 160 or so posts to browse through – “Plitter” will have even more. How do I even go through all of these posts in just the few minutes that I have before starting my workday?How about your “bio” page? Have you found yourself wanting to put something there that your friends will see, but decided not to because you don’t want EVERYBODY to see it? I would love to have different bios for different segments of my contacts. I refuse, however, to open multiple accounts for different contact groups. That just seems like too much work, but I know many who have done just that.

So what do I propose? What if I had all of my contacts categorized for me, with a separate “wall” for each category? I could choose my “friends” wall and just see the posts by my friends. I can post to my “friends” wall and only those people will see it. I could even do a search for keywords and have a list of friends pop up that match that keyword and quickly post to all or some of them. Each category would have its own bio associated with it, so only my friends could see my “friends” bio, and only my coworkers could see my “coworkers” bio. All my friends could see the pictures of me being drunk and silly, without worrying about what my coworkers might think.
The best part is that since I am only sending posts to people that I think will want to read them, more of my posts will actually get read! I can send out party invitations to my friends in San Jose, or quickly update my coworkers about a change in plans for the next meeting.
In essence, what I want is a “buzz conduit” that will direct the buzz to where I want it to go and give me just the buzz I want to hear at any given time. I want that, and I want some privacy back.