Scoble doesn't much care for the way social networks force organization on him:

So, what do I want? I want a social network that just lets me add contacts. Lets me add them for any reason. Lets me add them wholesale from other social networks. Lets me import them from Outlook. Or Facebook. Or LinkedIn. Or Twitter. Or Jaiku. Or Orkut. Or Gmail. Or wherever. And then lets me manage them on a granular level. Why can’t I add tags to each contact? Tags I pick. Not that are forced on me by some 22-year-old developer who has no idea about what a 42-year-old’s social network looks like.

It's probably some database guy who's forced that path on you, actually. Someone went ahead and set up a limited number of ways to save data, and that was the end of that. The same kind of tyranny has been plaguing HR departments for (literally) decades now, but they tend to complain less.

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