The State of the Open Social Web

[usonian]

2. "Social" sites stopped being social when they introduced news feeds to further addict users.

Ads were bad enough.

I avoid them all. I heavily filter DU for noisiness (I avoid a lot of heavily trafficked forums, just for the time involved) and I use Hacker News, which I skim. Not social at all. It's techie-oriented.

The only remaining and the original social network is email. (once you cut out the spam)

Being social, to me, exists within trusted contexts. We can't maintain any kind of relationship with more than 150 people, Dunbar's Number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

That, quite simply, is too few to exploit.

But it should be the basis of any *real* social networking.