It's a neat idea. I don't use Facebook, but I'd be open to a sort of social network based around the idea of a local profile that each individual sets and controls. Why is it a single big brick of a service that everyone must connect to and publish through?
Why not make profiles something modular that can be easily published and shared online, but also in a 'mesh network' setting where you publish and receive from devices within your general vicinity.
The profile should be a bundle of data about the individual, published by the individual. More of a standard than a service. There could be 3rd-party services to scrape and store what pepople publish. There could be 3rd-party services to produce nice cookie-cutter profiles, like resume templates. Services for hosting, collating, searching, viewing profiles. And people could have loads of different profiles for different parts of their lives, and separate them as much or little as they feel like. But at the core of things, the profile would belong to the User.
Check out scuttlebutt (https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/concepts/gossip.html), it really decouples the content from the device, and there are some services out there that will take all your content and help broadcast it, but the real flow of information is from friends to friends
Why not make profiles something modular that can be easily published and shared online, but also in a 'mesh network' setting where you publish and receive from devices within your general vicinity.
The profile should be a bundle of data about the individual, published by the individual. More of a standard than a service. There could be 3rd-party services to scrape and store what pepople publish. There could be 3rd-party services to produce nice cookie-cutter profiles, like resume templates. Services for hosting, collating, searching, viewing profiles. And people could have loads of different profiles for different parts of their lives, and separate them as much or little as they feel like. But at the core of things, the profile would belong to the User.