The idea is for a web application sort of like Facebook but for sharing stuff with your inner circle of friends and family members and with a focus on sharing sparingly – only relevant stuff. The premise here is that I still share a lot of stuff (links and media) by email with some of my closest family of friends but a) their interests vary by person/group; b) I’m fairly selective about what I send to whom; c) I’m careful not to send too often or send just any old drivel crap to my friendsbecause their time is precious.

Therefore an application with the following features might be useful to me:

1. Lets me import/create and manage a list of friends as well as tag each of them with multiple tags. Perhaps lets me invite my Facebook/Twitter friends.

2. Lets me request to follow existing users on the site and respond to similar requests from others.

3. Lets me send a link by email to a designated address with tags or friends’ names in the subject and will then share the link with friends having those tags or whose names I have specified.

4. Lets me also share items directly from the app.

5. Limits my sharing (to prevent over-sharing) by allocating a certain amount of ‘shares’ to me per week/month, which get used up each time I share. This way, I and my friends place a certain amount of value on what we share, hopefully reducing the likelihood of us ignoring things that are shared with us. The more I share and the more people I share it with, the more shares it will cost me.

6. Lets me buy more shares (perhaps).

The idea is that only the best stuff links will be shared and it will be my go-to place for seeing the stuff links that my closest friends really want me to see and I can therefore ignore most of the other stuff on Facebook and Email. Users’ invitations could read something like:

“Please join my inner circle of friends at XYZ.com, with whom I very selectively share only things that I really and truly want them to see, because I’m limited in how much and with how many people I can share. If you accept, I will only share with you what I think is relevant to you and important enough for your attention.”