Social Graph Design

An idea that the Benchmark partners taught me: in social networks, you want the celebrities to join at the end, not the beginning New networks should mint new celebrities, not get built by existing ones My interest in chain runners was low since it was (investor) celebrity led

Twitter became about arguing, Instagram became about showing off, Facebook became about people you went to school with saying weird things. The most important role in a social network is the vibe designer, because the big questions are sociological, not technological.

Something for decentralized social graph protocols to consider: Social connections are not homogeneous, but instead differ in their degree of: - intensity/affinity - context - duration - velocity