On: Why We are Moving Away from Facebook as a Platform

[smackay]

Having a hierarchy of friends may be in your interest but it is certainly not in the interests of the people hosting the social network. They need the social graph to be single level either to make mining the data easier or to get to expose your information to as wide an audience as possible.

[chopsueyar → smackay]

This is my main gripe with Facebook, the lack of proper entity modeling.

Use Facebook and your only option is to consider somebody a "friend" entity.

Modeling relationships with only a friend entity is pretty poor, IMHO.