> “The Social Graph” and its associated apps should be like the internet, distributed and not confined to one company’s servers.
It is like this though. Any one of us can re-create our social graph in a heartbeat on any of these services at any point in time by importing our contacts and letting the network present us with our associations at the moment in time we want it to.
I've done this with linkedin, having zero presence there until the moment I wanted to network in a new area.
I've done this with snapchat
Telegram
anything I want at that point in time
there is no need for continued presence on any one of them since you can come and go as you please with new profiles and reconnecting to existing associates.
That's a great concept: The fact that a list of {name, email, mobilephone number} allows you to effectively re-create your own network wherever you want is pretty cool.
I read the open/closed in the article as less about that and more about the fact that e.g. I can't push a twitter post to Facebook without Facebook specifically putting that function into Facebook. I also can't combine the comment streams from Twitter and Facebook. That's the kind of openness that I thought the article was referencing.
It is like this though. Any one of us can re-create our social graph in a heartbeat on any of these services at any point in time by importing our contacts and letting the network present us with our associations at the moment in time we want it to.
I've done this with linkedin, having zero presence there until the moment I wanted to network in a new area.
I've done this with snapchat
Telegram
anything I want at that point in time
there is no need for continued presence on any one of them since you can come and go as you please with new profiles and reconnecting to existing associates.