Path: the "antisocial" social network

We just discussed the importance of Twitter. Now here's something for people who like smaller social circles.

Based off of Oxford psychology professor Robin Dunbar's conclusion that a person can not have more than 150 social relationships, Path limits users to 50 friends. None of this 7,000 Facebook friends nonsense.

 Launched yesterday, it is being promoted as a personal network where "you can be yourself" because only people you really know are seeing what you publish.

You can use it on your browser but is only available in an iPhone app so far.

Its founders are pretty well known in the social networking/online media world comprised of former Facebook senior platform manager Dave Morin, Macster co-creator Dustin Mierau and Napster co-founder Shawn Fanning.

It functions like this:
It's basic photo sharing like Tublr but you also publish context: people, place, thing. There is a catch. Path is socially exclusive and does not let you "like," comment, or share your photo on another social network.

There is, however, a "see" function. It is a feedback function that you can see which of your friends have seen the moment you just posted in real-time.

Personal opinion, I think this is going to be a big hit now that people are valuing their privacy more and more online