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Facebook and the "Social Graph"
itwbennett writes "Peter Smith is blogging about day 1 of the Facebook F8 conference and Mark Zuckerberg's vision for Facebook, which, as it turns out, is somewhat confusing: 'Zuckerberg clearly sees Facebook as a service. Facebook Connect (the name) is going away and being replaced by the Facebook Platform. "Share on Facebook" buttons are being replaced with "Like on Facebook" buttons. And Comcast is now called Xfinity. ... What does it all mean to the end user? There's a new API to fetch data from Facebook more easily, which sounds great, if only I could figure out why I'd want to do that. The overall tone of the keynote was that Facebook was serious business and they were going to build the Social Graph, a vast network of connections between people and the things they like. Zuckerberg was a man with a mission.'"
no mention of user security ANYWHERE.
That's the biggest peeve I have with facebook/myspace, et al. They don't take the end users' security into consideration.
That's the #1 reason why I don't use their services. Otherwise, for a ton of people, they're fantastic services.
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He missed the message. The internet is full of haters and he isn't providing a dislike button.
If I like a song on Pandora, it can link to my Facebook profile. Great, I can spam my wall and annoy my friends even more!
Facebook is the single most popular site on the world, in spite of itself. All they do is piss off their users. Some day it will blow up in their face when someone launches something better.
http://blindscribblings.com - Tasty pop-culture in conceptual fashion.
Because we are social. We need social contact. If being social means having a profile on facebook so you'd connect with your friends, most people(whether they know the risks or not) will have one.
That's not real contact, though. It's a one way broadcast contact.
It's one thing to keep up with distant friends - it's a hell of a lot cheaper than phone calls, but in many cases it's a replacement for in person contact - even if folks are local. Sure, there are folks who use it to say "Hey, I'm at Joe's Tavern tonight, come and join me!" but others?
Facebook is pseudo social contact and I think it's actually making us more isolated as a people. We evolved to communicate one on one - not via a computer terminal.
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July 4, 1776 - September 11, 2001
That's nice, but only works in a romanticized version of reality. Almost all of my friends live hundreds of miles away. I don't care for most of my cow-orkers, and have little time available to do much with my friends who live nearby because I have a schedule to maintain with my kids and my friends work different hours than I do. There's a ridiculous number of reasons why for many people it is difficult to actually spend a lot of time hanging out with friends IRL, and probably just as many to justify keeping in touch via social media. For many, it's almost like we're integrating technology into our lives to give us more ways to keep in contact with people who physical world constraints make hard to spend face time with.
We evolved to communicate one on one - not via a computer terminal.
Says the man posting on Slashdot
I ended up AdBlocking a bunch of facebook URLs to solve this. Annoying, but it did work. The ones I blocked:
http://connect.facebook.net/*
http://www.facebook.com/connect/*
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/*
http://www.facebook.com/ajax/connect/*
http://www.facebook.com/connect.php/js/FB.SharePro/
http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?*
(PS: why does slashcode convert text-only URLs into hyperlinks inside a blockquote?)