[Ripster]

I am not that impressed. It is still very inflexible. The one social network that no-one has really not heard about is NotePub, and that is also the one that gets it right, you can just define custom groups of people and can specify for every bit of information which persons and/or groups can see that info.

[SoftwareMaven]

Custom grouping is too hard for the masses, so any social network that relies on that will continue to be the one nobody has heard about.

The WLN controls are actually a pretty good compromise in that they make it pretty easy and relatively clear to create the one differentiation that most people really want: real friends versus acquaintances.

I wish we lived in a world where people actually read the popup dialogs that popped up in front of them before clicking on "OK"...multiple times (a real experience that I witnessed that altered my perception of the masses completely). Unfortunately, we don't, and as the ones building the software, we have to deal with that (and often suffer when it comes to things like FaceBook that has has mass-adoption overlap).

[Ripster]

I see your point, and agree, well said, but not all social networks/web apps should aspire to be the next Facebook, some of them should try to do something different, not necessarily for the masses.