If I could keep all my contacts, I’d delete Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter today.

is it the platform that makes them a contact? or would having all of their phone numbers in your contacts do just as well?

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I don’t necessarily need their number. I just need to be able to reach out casually when I want.

My spectrum of contacts on social media spans the spectrum from strangers to best friends. It comes down to trust. What if we gave every contact we interact with a trust level? And the trust level changes over time based on various inputs like interaction, time known, and self inputs.

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Certainly not a trust level but the google+ circles concept was intended for that. People would be moved from circle to circle as the relationship changed. It seems that, in practice, people did t want to move people around these groups. It was either a friend/follower or not at all.

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I’d imagine keeping track of different circles is  complex. I’d propose when you add a “friend”, there’s a drop-down where you must select your trust level (best friend, good friend, friend, acquaintance, stranger). Can also prompt each person when they chat to update their trust level at some ideal frequency