LOAF - Distributed Social Networking Over Email

FamousLongAgo writes "LOAF (List Of All Friends) is an extension to email that lets you send out address book data without compromising your privacy. LOAF appends a hash-like data structure to each outgoing email, and collects similar attachments from the people who write to you. These files can be queried to see if they contain a given email address, but they can't be reverse-engineered to reveal the list of addresses used to construct them. LOAF lets you check whether someone emailing you for the first time is a complete stranger, or appears in the address books of some of your trusted correspondents. And as a decentralized application, LOAF offers an interesting alternative to current social networking sites like Orkut or Friendster."

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I don't want to interact with "regular" people more than I have to. They bore the shit out of me. "Regular" people are the people you see working McDonalds and who think that a grocery store clerking job are a career. I have little in common with them, and prefer to talk to those whom I have more in common with.

Maybe you do. Thats great, go hang out with them. I never said you shouldn't. But don't belittle other people's preferences, just because you don't share them. If you want to talk about elitism- thinking your way is better because its your way, now THATS elitism.