Comments on: wed http://mtl3p.ilesansfil.org/blog/archives/2007/07/11/wed.html society, technology and me Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:41:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 By: MK http://mtl3p.ilesansfil.org/blog/archives/2007/07/11/wed.html#comment-3273 MK Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:17:36 +0000 http://mtl3p.ilesansfil.org/blog/archives/2007/07/11/wed.html#comment-3273 The true test with FB is not if you can get over the initial weirdness of feeling like you are using something not particularly aimed at your demographic, but - - can you get over the weirdness when droves of people you went to kindergarten with/met once whilst drunk/never met/went to high school with and were <em>sure</em> they couldn't stand you/etc start friending you; and - can you get over "watching" all the exchanges of affection between your various levels of friends, especially the over-the-top weirdness in some of the third party applications? (as one of my friends put it, "It's such a spectacle. None of the discretion of the poke wars of old. The skullduggery of it. I dearly wanted the extensions I just didn't want it to be such an exhibition." Anyways. Worth it as an unfolding social experiment - hold on for the ride. The true test with FB is not if you can get over the initial weirdness of feeling like you are using something not particularly aimed at your demographic, but -

- can you get over the weirdness when droves of people you went to kindergarten with/met once whilst drunk/never met/went to high school with and were sure they couldn’t stand you/etc start friending you; and

- can you get over “watching” all the exchanges of affection between your various levels of friends, especially the over-the-top weirdness in some of the third party applications? (as one of my friends put it, “It’s such a spectacle. None of the discretion of the poke wars of old. The skullduggery of it. I dearly wanted the extensions I just didn’t want it to be such an exhibition.”

Anyways.
Worth it as an unfolding social experiment - hold on for the ride.

]]> By: Chris Car http://mtl3p.ilesansfil.org/blog/archives/2007/07/11/wed.html#comment-3295 Chris Car Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:27:26 +0000 http://mtl3p.ilesansfil.org/blog/archives/2007/07/11/wed.html#comment-3295 I am not giving FB another try. Why? I am more and more critically re-thinking all these internet platforms offering me a space to connect with people. Connecting is good, but not on a centralized platform which makes money by exactly knowing who I am (and reselling my behaviour to advertisers and whoever...). I will be back joining these platforms if there are de-centralized platforms which are not owned by one singly company, but by many people. But I guess it will take some time... ;-) I am not giving FB another try. Why? I am more and more critically re-thinking all these internet platforms offering me a space to connect with people. Connecting is good, but not on a centralized platform which makes money by exactly knowing who I am (and reselling my behaviour to advertisers and whoever…). I will be back joining these platforms if there are de-centralized platforms which are not owned by one singly company, but by many people. But I guess it will take some time… ;-)

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