David Emery Online

Social Docking

11 March 2008

A good observation; now when you meet someone you enter into a complicated online docking procedure where you each figure out what social networks the other is on and what username they’re using.

I guess if we were all using XFN you could roll together a service where you enter your new friends URL (with nicely marked-up ‘this is me on Flickr’ type links) and it automatically adds them as a friend on all the networks you’re on. I guess that might spoil part of the early friendship dance, though…