Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Changing the Facebook Paradigm

So it occurred to me that all of the profile information on Facebook is autobiographical, or at least intended to be autobiographical. Well what if there were two sections to Facebook, the autobiographical part and then a collection of information that other people write about you? Of course there would need to be good controls over what can be published about an individual, but perhaps it should be done similarly to wikipedia. The community of Facebook could be leveraged to verify all the data and anecdotes to be true or false. The incorrect biographies could be corrected by the community and through good discussion we could end up with much better representations of who people are than what they provide on their own.