Sometimes you just would like to be available to a very close network of dear friends and not to the all bunch of your social connections.
I believe it’s about time an IM, a chat or a microblog comes up with scalable availability.
That way we can be available for the innergroup but not to the outergroup.
I’m going to suggest this function to some of the microblogs now in alpha or in private beta – they might still listen to me.
I call this idea the ‘innercircle functionality’.