In the beta release of LimeWire 5.0 (download for Windows | Mac), which was announced at the Consumer Electronics Show here popular P2P service includes a social element that will enable people using the Jabber-compatible services such as Gmail share files with friends on their buddy lists . Lime Wire calls it “personal network”.

The idea, said the general director of Lime Wire George Сирл to add a trusted connection, a user searches for content, given that most people want - and feel comfortable with - the content of people they know.

In addition, Searle explained that the new social features of LimeWire - which has 70 million unique users each month and more than 5 billion queries per month - will enable people to decide whether to make the files available to the public as a whole, or only to their friends and family .

In many respects, this is the same as many other content-sharing systems. But to Searle, adding a social component for LimeWire means that the already very popular service is more personal for many users.

In fact, it is a new feature is that users will be able to decide whether to make the files - pictures, for example - for any LimeWire, or just for people on their buddy lists. Also, users will be able to search files from your friends. And it will take advantage of the exchange, which has tens of millions of people already use, that Lime Wire hopes to encourage many of the adoption of social elements.

Sirl said he hopes that the social function will allow users to trust the sources of their share of the system in such a way that it is hardly possible in the sharing with strangers.