• Wear your heart on your sleeve? Former Facebook executive Dave Morin wants you to show your emotions on his social networking site Path. The latest feature from Morin’s San Francisco start-up is called ‘emotions’, buttons that let you show how a photograph or a short video a friend has posted on Path makes you feel.   The feature is similar to Facebook’s ‘like’  button but expresses a much broader range of emotion. Path is building what it calls a ‘personal network’, a way to share content with your closest 50 connections rather than hundreds of friends and acquaintances on Facebook and other social networking sites. It allows people to share photos and 10-second video ‘moments’ from their iPhones.According to Path, this is just the first in a series of new features.

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•  Path, the photo-centric service, built for smart phones, is designed to help users share information only with people they trust.  With high rollers on Facebook boasting up to 5,000 ‘friends’, digital friendship has become increasingly indiscriminate. And that keeps some people from feeling comfortable sharing the more intimate details of their lives. That’s the motivation behind Path which offers a more exclusive social network. As people crave more private interaction with a much smaller social circle, Path lets each user designate only 50 friends. A research says 50 is “roughly the outer boundary of our personal networks.”  “You usually have about five people whom you trust most, 20 whom you consider your BFFs that you hang out with all the time and about 50 or so who are your personal network,” said Morin, co-founder and chief executive of Path. “Path is built for that.”    Path isn’t meant to replace Facebook or other social networking services, but rather to “ride alongside them,” Morin said. “The idea here is that you always control who you’re sharing with.”

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