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Am I the only one who feels completely awkward watching Mark Zuckerberg speak?

No. No I’m not.

I’m actually on Facebook but I hardly ever use it. And if I had to make a list of all the things I really wish I was excited about but I’m not, Facebook would probably be like #3. That being said, the Facebook Platform seems sort of interesting. Mashable has a great list of all the applications that are now available. The two that seem the most interesting to me: [...]

Browsing through the profile pages MySpace, Friendster, LinkedIn and Facebook (to name a few), you’ll begin to see a trend in how a user’s friends are displayed. I like to refer to it as…. “The Bin of Friends.” This now ubiquitous display, filled with photos of your 356 dearest friends, has been quickly developed and adopted and is now the trademark feature of most online social networks. Each friend, whether it’s the girl I’ve known since childhood, or the guy I haven’t even met face to face yet, is treated the same: a single thumbnail photo and a screen name linked to their profile. I see each characteristic of this social network display as a conscious design decision. Whether or not significant thought went into these decisions is unclear to me; but what is clear is that this display makes a lot of incorrect assumptions – about how we connect to our friends, how we display those connections, and how important each connection is on its own.