RS as a social network and "2nd internet layer"?

[apoapo]

In an interview given a few days ago to gulli.com RS devs said that there aim is to create a full replacement for traditional social networks aka facebook&co.
I really think this might be accomplished in quite a short time considering the SPEED the devs are working at! (VoIP, walls, chatrooms, friend "circles"+permissions, etc to come afaik).

Furthermore:
The following study shows again, that you are in contact with everyone else in the world over 6,6 "edges".

http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0939

Assuming a turtle routing with about 6 hops -> forums, channels, chatrooms can be spread over the whole world when hopped at least 6 times. This will result in a totally independent 2nd internet where you are able to share private files with your friends but also share public files with everyone, like the already existing internet. Except for the fact that only trusted friends are used to communicate.

This is great! But there will be a problem storing all that data on every node imo.. RS is growing rapily now, where will it head?

What are your thoughts concerning the ability of RS to scale? Are you going to use this software as a social network (replacement)?
Just interested in your opinions, happy discussing!

[Distro]

Indeed, my cache directory is already 1.5 GB and growing... Hopefully the new design will reduce disk usage.

[progician]

I don't think storage would be a huge problem. Our hard drives are usually pretty big for storing simple text files, and most of the "public share" is gonna be facebook like walls, with some retroshare hashlinks for cat videos. Having said that, I have 4 terabyte storage at home, so I definitely don't have any problem with it. But you don't have to store everything. It's a P2P network, you keep what is your interest. I can imagine that our phones are capable of storing most of our communications, except media (video/audo stuff like this).
Software sharing also, but I would like to encourage people not to share binaries: share git/hg repositories is much-much-much more safe