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It's nowhere near ready for public consumption but the core ideas are there and I'd be interested to hear what others think.  Here are some of the things that I think differentiate it from facebook and co:\n\n1) multiple profiles: having one set of \"friends\" from all your different social circles limits you to sharing only what you're willing to share with the entire group.  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I think you need some kind of Facebook interaction built…",{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"1583075","fezzl","Personally, I think that grey is a bad color: too dreary and dull. Also, tell people how they can use your social network in a way that Facebook cannot do, i.e. provide use cases…",[67,74,81,85],{"value":68,"source":56,"evidence":69},"Missing social aspect; hard to find friends on the site",[70],{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"1579936","Spyckie","Its missing the social aspect right now - I can't find anyone (much less my friends).",{"value":75,"source":56,"evidence":76},"Everything private makes it unclear whether it is social",[77],{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},"1579564","minalecs","good effort, but ui could be better. going to swytch.net[http:\u002F\u002Fswytch.net] leads to no heroku app found don't see much value in a social network where everything is private.. is…",{"value":82,"source":56,"evidence":83},"Needs Facebook integration to get users to switch",[84],{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"value":86,"source":56,"evidence":87},"Grey design is dull; UI could be better",[88,89],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},[91,95,99],{"value":92,"source":56,"evidence":93},"Integrate with Facebook or other services",[94],{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"value":96,"source":56,"evidence":97},"Clearer use cases and calls to action for features Facebook lacks",[98],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},{"value":100,"source":56,"evidence":101},"Temporary throwaway identities for events",[102],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"1581005","LaPingvino","maybe you can center on temporary social networks, a kind of throw-away account system for social networking when you need it... 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