social sites repurposing contacts
A month or so ago, Cory Doctorow wrote a column about how your “creepy ex-co-workers will kill Facebook,” and introduced what he calls “boyd’s law:” Adding more users to a social network increases the probability that it will put you in an awkward social circumstance. I think there’s an important corollary: adding more features and [...]
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