There are a few options in how we sort contacts into groups. We can do it like Facebook. Everybody friends your profile and you manually group them. The grouping is private in that your friends don't know what groups they're in (and most of the time, even if they've been grouped at all).
We can do it like Diaspora. Explicit groups where the interface requires that you group people and is public about which groups you're interacting with when. Another approach is to use URLs. Give all your friends the http://fbox.example.com/wild-and-crazy-guy address. Give your family the http://fbox.example.com/pious-father address. Give your coworkers the http://fbox.example.com/always-at-my-desk address. Each of these are just different views of the same profile. And then you could manually change what people see if somebody's status changes from, say, /boyfriend to /ex-boyfriend. The interface should be obvious about which groups you are talking to. Perhaps the css could change in obvious ways (backrgound color?) or perhaps the software could be smart enough to know you don't want to share "me-drunk.png" with the group labelled "WORK". I'm interested in other ideas and mechanisms for managing identities and making sure information doesn't leak between identities. Thanks, James _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
