A guy named Loic le Meur wrote an article and drew a graph about the pros and cons of decentralized social maps and how we could reclaim everything. The drawing, albeit its simplicity, opened the eyes of a lot of social network savvy users worldwide. I, for one, have been trying to deal with this problem this past couple of months (although the catalist to my search for a solution was something complete different). A clean cut way to see if you have the same problem I have, perform a google search for your common username. I use have been using redesigndavid since before the turn of the millenium. It means something to me. Google returns a couple pages worth of my online profiles from multiple web 2.0 platforms. That’s cool!!! That means I’m participating in the online community. But it is also a huge mess!!

Le Meur that although it helps to be scattered across the web when it comes to networkign, everything should still be consolidated to a page that belongs to the person represented by the many profiles.

He explains things better with this video.

His thoughts generated so much social mileage that a website was set up just to house everybody else’s social network’s graph. Check it out, and maybe upload your own graph, if you want to. I’m thinking of doing that myself.