[unalone]

Interesting that people are doing this, but most people use Facebook for storage/sharing second, for social/commenting first. It's not about the photos, it's about the comments attached to the photos. And about the status updates and wall posts and all the other communicative stuff.

Email doesn't handle that, because email doesn't let interested observers chip in. One-to-one has its drawbacks.

[ed209]

that's true, I guess it would only take Dropbox to add commenting on the sharing pages they now create. But it's mostly about the perms for me (which these shared pages don't seem to offer), I know who I share a DB folder with. And in my particular case, the comments happen over the phone, or when my family comes over, on skype and actually some to/fro email (although it's annoying when it happens there).

[unalone]

A comments page but also a newsfeed to track the comments happening.

It's a bit catchword-y, but I like the phrase "ambient social" to describe the appeal of Facebook in one key sense: it's not about directed conversations, it's about creating opportunities for conversations which other people might take you up on. I post a status not because I want to talk about myself, but because I'm sending out a feeler for if anybody else wants to begin a conversation. (Which is why Twitter doesn't appeal to me the same way: it's nowhere near as easy to track conversations.)

[rmc]

If they do that, they might become a billion dollar company.