I saw your Sympathy for the Devil plugin. I did the same thing with Grateful Dead’s “Eyes of the World.”

You never know, huh?

It seems to me, based on how slowly and carefully Google has moved toward social networking — so slowly and so cautiously, in fact, that most people don’t know they’ve done anything at all — that Google, for all its size, is still in a position to “do it right.” I’d honestly love to have a chance to work with the kind of talent they have there, on something this cool.

I’m sure they have their own ideas.

I’m glad you “get it.”

“It,’ in this case being that people have different privacy interests depending on who they are, who they’re with and where they are. I’m not criticizing social media for making insufficient provision for this; but I don’t think companies have extended themselves at all in this direction.

A simple and common case would be teachers and professors who would like to use Facebook to interact with students but want also to use it, entirely separately, with family and friends. More granularly, there are perhaps conversations I would have with siblings that I’d not want my parents to know about. Etc. I could come up with as many examples as there are humans on the planet.

It was simple in the “olden days.” People only knew what you chose to reveal to them directly … leaving aside for a moment phone bills and purloined love letters.

I’m convinced that building out a social networking site that is based on maximizing the individual need to control his or her own information and identity, as opposed to maximizing the ability to share information, will be a big step forward.

I like your site, by the way.

Thanks!