[Zaskoda]

I'm going to use this as an excuse to springboard off on a tangent I've been thinking a lot about.

I think my social media story might be pretty common. Early on, all my social graphs across various platforms were well managed mappings of my real life friends. Today, all my social graphs are a mess. Platforms seem to push to make it easier to discover and find new friends. I want the opposite of this.

I want to have to go through a series of steps in real life in order to add someone to my contact list. I want to classify this friend in some way that acknowledges what the level of trust is. Is this person a casual acquaintance or a trusted family member?

When content is "shared" and I'm receiving it in my news feed, I don't just want to see how many "likes" it has. I want to heuristics on how my personal network responded to that piece of content. And, of course, I want to own that data and I want my hardware to crunch the data. So this could be built in a decentralized way.

This paradigm is far less susceptible to Sybil attacks, such as paid upvotes on a sites like Hacker News. It would isolate us, in a way, from the zeitgeist. But it would connect us more closely with our real world social network.

[jwestbury]

> But it would connect us more closely with our real world social network.

But the Internet is also the real world, yes? I'm not sure trivialising Internet-based relationships is the solution to a real problem.

[effingwewt]

Most definitely not, op even gave a direct example.

Also you have to consider what we used to call keyboard kourage. Many people will say things online they never would in real life.

To quote Mike Tyson- 'Social media made you all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it'.