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Could the multiple-kinds-of-contacts issue be handled if social-networking sites explicitly allowed one user to have multiple handles? E.g., a user could be “Bess Smith” to her family members, “B. J. Smith” to her college friends, and “Elizabeth Smith Jones” to her clients, and only her five closest friends would have “friend”-level access to all three identities.



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