Virtual social networks are broken as they make managing intimacy a process of publicly pruning a rolodex.
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Real life intimacy is proxemic. Aided by technology such as walls, carrots, sticks, etc. It's also physical.
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At best the virtual is mapped to what is real. But we still over-rely on active intent. Passive intent signals exist in greater quantity.
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Basically social networks defeated resource locality by indexing people and then turned intimacy into a mechanical process.
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(While it is uncooked and lacking seasoning, this is my best idea in weeks.)
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