The Fallacy of Facebook's "See Friendship" 'Feature'
Lisa Selin Davis did a story about this in TIME, Nov 18, 2010": "The Trouble with Facebook's New 'See Friendship' Feature" My key quote: "We all live in segmented, diversified worlds. We might be juggling girlfriends, jobs or different groups of friends. But [Facebook thinks] we're in one integrated community." http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2032030,00.html#comments In short, despite Facebook's name, they don't really understand the Social Network Revolution. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________
wasn't this very assumption the one that caught google buzz? On 19 Nov 2010, at 15:40, Barry Wellman wrote:
But [Facebook thinks] we're in one integrated community."
-- Ben Anderson Sociology @ Essex http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/staff/profile.aspx?ID=118 Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation http://cresi.essex.ac.uk/getperson?personID=1
If you like this, you might also enjoy Paul Adams' presentation "The Real Life Social Network": http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2 - Alex On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
Lisa Selin Davis did a story about this in TIME, Nov 18, 2010":
"The Trouble with Facebook's New 'See Friendship' Feature"
My key quote: "We all live in segmented, diversified worlds. We might be juggling girlfriends, jobs or different groups of friends. But [Facebook thinks] we're in one integrated community."
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2032030,00.html#comments
In short, despite Facebook's name, they don't really understand the Social Network Revolution.
Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________
S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________
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