{"id":396,"date":"2008-02-03T22:10:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T02:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2008-02-03T23:57:52","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T03:57:52","slug":"social-graph-you-might-need-to-care-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2008\/social-graph-you-might-need-to-care-about-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Graph: You Might Need to Care About This"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There’s a lot of buzz right know around something called the social graph<\/a>. <\/strong> This buzz is very geeky, and if you’re not already immersed in geeky conversations about Internet privacy and identity, this buzz might be going over your head. That’s a shame, though, because you probably do care about it.<\/p>\n

\"socialgraphapi.jpg\"<\/a>What’s a Social Graph?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You have lots of contacts. Some are professional colleagues, some are personal friends, some are both of those, and some are more complicated than that. A social graph is a snapshot of who you’re connected to and how. The specifics<\/a> are super-geeky, so I’m not gonna go any deeper than that.<\/p>\n

What’s Happening Now?
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Google just released something called the Social Graph API<\/a>. This is going to make it easier for social networking websites to share information about who you’re connected to. This opens up a huge can of worms in terms of privacy and identity and security and all that fun stuff that the Internet’s been debating since it was born.<\/p>\n

How Does This Affect You?<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the moment, it doesn’t. It’s too new. But it’s pushing the borders on what we need to think about when we use social networking websites, and that’s going to matter to you as soon as it gets to your favorite websites. Looking ahead to the not-so-distant future, you should probably prepare yourself for two things:<\/p>\n

1) <\/strong>You’re going to have an easier time sharing your “friends list”<\/strong> between your social networking websites without having to give out your email address book<\/a>. This also means that signing up for a new social networking website won’t be such a headache<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

2) You’re going to have a harder time compartmentalizing and obscuring<\/strong> different parts of your life on the Internet. There will still be a place for pseudonym-based anonymity, but with all of these networks talking to each other, it’s going to be harder to hide<\/strong>. So if you’ve got skeletons in your public MySpace closet and you’ve just figured that nobody’s gonna look behind that door, you might wanna go clear those out now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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