System and method for personal device sharing using social networks

A system comprising:

• a computing device configured to receive from a first user having a first personal device, a request for sharing access to one of a resource and a state of a second personal device of a second user, the first user having an on-line social network relationship with the second user on an on-line social network;
• and
• the computing device configured to determine whether to grant sharing access to the one of the resource and the state of the second personal device of the second user.

A tangible non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions, the instruction, when executed by a computing device, causing the computing device to perform a method comprising:

• receiving from a first user having a first personal device, a request for sharing access to one of a resource and a state of a second personal device of a second user, the first user having an on-line social network relationship with the second user on an on-line social network;
• and
• determining whether to grant sharing access to the one of the resource and the state of the second personal device of the second user at least in part based on the on-line social network relationship.