Aug 2, 2007

Social Network Portability

Why is it that every single social network community site makes you:

  • re-enter all your personal profile info (name, email, birthday, URL etc.)?
  • re-add all your friends?

In addition, why do you have to:

  • re-turn off notifications?
  • re-specify privacy preferences?
  • re-block negative people?

There’s a great article over on Microformats about possible standards for social networks. I’m suffering from social network fatigue, so standards would be very very good. (via)

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