Beth, your post about one-night stands is great. I’d been thinking of shortening the “back end” of the relationship most of all (I’ve got a post brewing about the VRM implications of this), and your post additionally discusses the “front-end” implications. There are interesting trust questions here. When you look at atom-based methods of person-to-person trust-building, it’s a much more gradual process than the abrupt “Click the ‘I Agree’ Button” process for accepting site terms of use — it’s sort of like the crudest bar pick-up line imaginable, but you end up saying yes anyway…

I will be looking far more deeply into VRM. Thanks for giving it form and hope that there are better ways for people and commerce to interact.