Compassion in Politics

What do you think is Facebook’s missing feature? I firmly believe that the three features most in need of change are:1) More options for lowering of artificial privacy walls.2) More features that encourage community (perhaps even real time sharing whether that mimics a chat like Beebo or Campfire or whatever).  I made this argument earlier this week.3) According to Chris Garret, discoverability like stumble upon, digg, and delicious. (i don’t agree with the digg part entirely, as I think it gets gamed inappropriately)

Walling off the digitally flat world like a cocoon:Artificial borders between the Global/local community

Is Facebook another brick in the wall? The network walls between local communities in facebook make it a digital sandbox thats fundamentally walled off. For instance, I couldn’t learn from anyone outside the DC region right now.Sure privacy settings are important, but not all our data needs to be private. I just don’t want nefarious folks knowing my contact info (addy, phone, email). Otherwise, I really don’t care. Clearly folks are willing to give up some of the privacy constraints of Facebook. Look at myspace. Look at blogs. In fact, Plaxo launched recently to consolidate your social networking life (the new buzz word is “life stream”) It has variable settings in terms of privacy. There is no reason why Facebook can’t do the same… And my guess is that things will move in that direction. If I want to live my life outloud, digitally and otherwise, why can’t I???