November 5, 2009

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Are We Friends?

“friends,” “followers,” “contacts” and other descriptors of the edges between nodes in a social graph are all poor choices of words. Being friends with someone on Facebook does not make us friends. Following you on Twitter does not make me your follower.

If I ran a social network I’d use a complete nonsense word to describe the edges on the social graph. Even “rebaflames” would be better than “friends.” Better for two reasons: 1) it wouldn’t be loaded with the social context of friendship and 2) it would allow you to define the lexicon in your space which leads to thought leadership. Like FeedBurner owning the term “burn” your feed.

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