AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon all have family talk plans. How about if social networking sites followed suit? The best example of this would be the Facebook Family Plan where you can create one profile and list yourself, your spouse, the kids and any pets worth mentioning.
You've probably already seen people "jury-rigging" Facebook for this already. I'm friends with at least half-a-dozen people who combine their Facebook profiles with their spouse. It's easy to do. Say your name is George Jetson and your wife's name is Judy. Each of you have a Facebook profile, but you both don't spend enough time on the site to make it worth your while, but you like occasionally catching up with old friends and seeing what they're up to. Just change your first name from George to "GeorgeJudy" or "GeorgeandJudy", delete Judy's profile and there you go.
The downside of this is it may be a violation of the current TOS (I'm not sure, and don't have the time to wade through it) Chime in if you know that's not the case. Another negative is it may make you and your spouse less searchable on Facebook. What other things can you think of that would be negative?
It really wouldn't be hard for Facebook to create some special features for dual accounts. Both names could be listed and fully searched. When the profile is pulled up it would show the combined version with his and her editable features.
So there it is. My super duper schmuper Facebook idea for them to make it easier for people who want to combine profiles.
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