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Marc Canter knows a lot about digital lifestyle aggregation (DLA). As far as I know, he coined the term. Naturally, when I joined Facebook, I was curious to find out what Canter and other early adopter social networking types were saying. Though I may be late to the party, I’ve discovered that my misgivings about FB are consistent with the early adopters. Namely, the need for more granular, user friendly, open standards. Granularity in this context is simply the ability to specifically define the nature of our social relationships according to self-selected meta-data or tags. And that’s precisely what’s missing from FB. Says Canter:

“Dave (Winer) is pissed off at Facebook for treating him like a college student. He wants to insert in his OWN way of defining a relationship. To me - that’s just another open standard. Lets ask Facebook for the ability to change that”

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