From dnied@tiscali.it Mon Mar 17 21:40:16 2014 Path: diesel.cu.mi.it!feedme.news.telefonica.de!storethat.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dario Niedermann Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: [/.] The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 11:08:39 +0100 Organization: Not speaking for any Lines: 27 Message-ID: X-Trace: news.albasani.net eDnv0hBGDjx2MfsxZ80pDMZZUD66n0MMrH+vd8rwWRiDcGBinNIr3IdWRCUGodMjAUs1Cf4Gz+eFlfrrWZiChATz9FkliM4rwBAwmsf4d9vWdhnPG849fg5dJHchrFF5 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 10:10:40 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="wNb/geNufeuFcl4HMhjLQ+q7nbK0LFOY9GdoHKcicmRP4Wkk0bWnMoXpGl0xISiz1I8Wf8qseMc2Q+wklblJ2WfUySiomWwZjOocaieIDzoFLCbGXzXKky8tCzZ5KeRF"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1/co (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QSx+Zum4S8USqDNI9HaVeM4oDVg= Xref: diesel.cu.mi.it comp.misc:6263 From : | An anonymous reader writes "Speaking to The Verge, author and Microsoft | Researcher Danah Boyd put words to a feeling I've had about Facebook | and other social networking sites for a while, now: 'The era of | Facebook is an anomaly.' She continues, 'The idea of everybody going | to one site is just weird. Give me one other part of history where | everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more | natural state of being. [...] | [...] Imagine being a Comcast customer and being unable to email | somebody using Time Warner, or a T-Mobile subscriber who can't call | somebody who's on Verizon. Why do we allow this with our social | networks?" That's what I've been saying all along. Facebook is the opposite of what the Internet should be. The Internet's #1 advantage on earlier computer networks like AOL or Compuserve is *decentralization*. Give the Internet to the masses and WTF do they do in just a few years? They flock to a centralized, closed network and lock themselves in. Of course. -- > cat /etc/slackware-version && uname -mprs Slackware 14.0 Linux 3.12.0-dn i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36