I’ve gotten sucked into Facebook, and so far it looks like it has the right mix of stringentness and openness to make a succesful social network.
Stringentness in that there’s a good deal of reciprocity in who you add as friends, and openness in that you can hook other stuff in (Twitter, last.fm, Flickr etc.)
I’d like the following:
- RSS feeds for notifications (Frank tells me that it exists, but if I can’t find it after looking for 30 seconds, it might as well not exist…)
- some sort of IM integration. Twitter is great in that way.
Basically I’d like to interact to web apps in 2 ways: via RSS (Bloglines) and IM (gtalk, ‘cos it’s the least closed system.) Visting a new web page isn’t really gonna do it for me. And email notifications? Please, it’s 2007. Keep email for the squares, let us young one’s get stuff the new way!