With the unleashing of the Facebook open source onslaught, developers, industry pundits and economists have been quick to sing the praises of a new open range in the tech frontier. But where does that leave the user of this new and improved social construct? Certainly there are more users as Facebook leaves the restricted confines of the higher education world so anybody can join. And certainly there are no end to the gadgets we will be swimming in, although initially they seem to be of the silly variety, like choosing if you are a pirate or a ninja. But really, in the end, it is another network to join. Another username and password to keep track of. Another host of friends to find and invite to the new party. The element that seems to be missing most, at least for now, is real connectivity. I find the ability to search, find and connect with all the different people in my life (work, family, alumni, hobbies, etc)  still somewhat restricted. And the ability to connect with non-Facebook people (i.e. as an invitation to join) isn't present at all. Which brings me to the point about social networks. How many can we really support? I find that after two, a person starts to experience slight vertigo as to where they should be. Is that friend on MySpace? Facebook? Yelp? ILike? LinkedIn? What I truly wish for, and I hope Facebook is the one to do this, is social independence. Can we free our identities from the constrains of a walled garden and free float on the web? Can we create self-contained identity files that link and unlink with various groups at will, relying on large central open-source tools to search and find friends, keep track of all of our photos, show off our opinions, without having to stay constrained to a single administrative universe? Network creators can still maintain the cool communities and social apps our identities want to stay involved with, they just won't own the identities themselves.