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“The people I fly with as a pilot could care less about my … amateur radio work. They should have the ability to say they’ll be my friend in this context and not necessarily in another context,” said R & H Security Consulting President and CEO Howard Schmidt, a former academic who also consults for the government. “This is something we have to fine-tune as we build out social networking.”

“People want to create villages and they’re being forced into cities

Many social-networking sites essentially force users to become part of a huge community, or they force users to choose whether someone else is a friend or not, with no other subtleties defining that relationship

The reason these companies are are rushing to get products out the door is because whoever is a player in this space is likely to control user data over the long run. If users don't have to put profile and friend information into multiple sites, they will gravitate towards one site that they identify with, and then allow other sites to access that data.

The main problem with "social networking" isn't just that your "social" life has corporate boundaries. It's that your personal choices do too.

Who controls your data?