

So this bit here:
Populate a public list of other users with whom such user shares a social connection within such service or application
seems like the easiest way to circumvent this law, with the least effort. Just hide connections for users in VA, and now you’re not a social media site. You could even give them their own domain like facebookva.com that only they route through, in case the VA govt try to claim all users on the site have to work the same way. Tie them up for years.
My partner is my emergency contact point. If you don’t have their number, it means that there’s no case in which your emergency is my problem. Everything else is on an “I’ll get to it if and when I get to it” basis.
On an unrelated note, I don’t have a large circle of friends. :P