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My email contacts list is not a social graph. It is not a group of people I have chosen to follow, but is instead full of people with whom I have a (sometimes very tenuous) professional relationship, as well as my family and some of my friends. Interestingly, my best friends don’t email me very often, so they do not show up as a part of my Buzz following list.

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16 comments

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    Bradley Horowitz - 13th February 2010 19:45 - #

  2. Of course it's a social graph. It's the social graph of "email contacts". It's just not the same social graph.

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