Mange ser åbningen af den sociale graf hos eksempelvis Facebook, som internettets næste styresystem (OS). Oven på data om brugerens personlige netværk – mennesker som den enkelte bruger har online kontakt til – vil 3. parts firmaer kunne skrive nye programmer. Problemet med Facebook er at det ikke har en fuldstændig åben politik, når det gælder den sociale graf. Brugerne kan således ikke tage disse oplysninger med sig til andre sociale netværkssider. Google overvejer, iflg. TechChrunch, at tage dette ekstra skridt.
Her er iøvrigt en ny definition på “den sociale graf”: Oh yes. First, what is your social graph? Put simply, it’s your connections online. Now, in real life, you’re in the middle and all of your connections are at the center. However, with all of the different social networking tools out there (Ringo, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Vox, IM, etc.), the graph looks a whole lot more broken up. You’ve got 238 friends on Facebook, 47 people that you follow in Twitter, 13 contacts in Flickr and 36 people in your Vox neighborhood. And some of those friends/followers/contacts/neighbors are the same people; but each time you join a new social network, you’ve got to try to find your friends all over again. What you need is something that will “glue” all of your data from multiple social networks together. Opening up your social graph is all about about social network portability—the ability to take your profile, data and connections with you wherever you go, using the same principles as OpenID.