- A set of features for navigating from your immediate connections to their connections and so on, generally with a filtering capability ("Who in my network is over 30/says they liked Casablanca/joined since I last looked/etc?")
- Names, logos, slogans and other branding to identify people as having something humanly meaningful in common ("all the cool kids/movie buffs/seasoned professionals/etc join this site")
I'm sure that the combination will continue to be called "social networking," whether or not the label really fits, but it would be good to have nice crisp labels for the parts when we want to talk about them without confusion.
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For the second, this looks promising, though I keep thinking there's a better, related term that I can't quite bring to the surface. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=totem&searchmode=none
Note to self: I think communities eventually won out
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