The original UNIX came with social networking tools: "mail" for sending messages to people, and "finger" for status updates. Later systems added "talk" and "ytalk" for live chat.
We need something like social networking, payment and communication as layers of our networks with open protocols to just use this service without bothering creating an account on FB and other malicious services.
Sometimes I'd wish our internet would be more like the network the computers in Star Trek use.
> Sometimes I'd wish our internet would be more like the network the computers in Star Trek use.
I'm not ready for that many holodeck accidents.