Now that I've been using Facebook for a few months, I think I finally know what it really is: a set of collected blogs. Being Facebook Friends consists of making a reciprocal committment to view each others' blogs - nothing more. Your Facebook home page is a merging of all the blogs you've committed to view. There is a certain amount of privacy gained by declaring that your blog is viewable only by people who you know, but because of the breadth of the Facebook definition of Friend, I don't believe that privacy is useful (see My Parents Joined Facebook).
Knowing this, Facebook could be nicely replaced by a full blogging site, or a network of cooperating blogs, that enabled display of multiple blogs simultaneously - no big technical feat.
08 June 2009
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