Mark Zuckerberg’s Take on “The Social Network”
“We build products that 500 million people see… If 5 million people see a movie, it doesn’t really matter that much.”
Via Ann Althouse.
Hollywood and Facebook
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Twitter, Facebook, and social activism
Why the revolution will not be tweeted, via Slashdot.
This reminded me of something a friend wrote last summer:
Facebook connected me to current friends, old friends, old non-friends, current non-friends, concert venues, my library, and dozens of other people. But these were, as Umair Haque phrased it so well, “weak, artificial connections, what I call thin relationships.” Following all these people takes time and attention, but I have as much connection with a person who used to share deep conversation with me as I do with someone who was a passing acquaintance: not only thin, but impersonally thin.
Social Media Venn Diagram
From Despair, Inc. via Monastic Musings
Leaving Facebook: Exploring Digital Monasticism
The last section is focused on the author’s monastic life, but the need to maintain focus and set aside distractions applies to all of us. When I left Facebook I described it as a “time sink.”
I defaced myself
A Sociologist looks at Facebook
Social Media — Backstage Pushed Forward
From my friend of more than 40 years, Sister Edith.
Ask yourself: Is Facebook/whatever frontstage or backstage for you? I can see both among my Facebook friends.
Facebook update
Another new thing about this inauguration
If social networking servers crash during inauguration, fine by me
There is a fear that when Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th American president on Tuesday, our population’s addiction to instant communication will cripple the networks we use for messaging.
To prepare for Inauguration Day, wireless carriers have beefed up their networks. Twitter has added servers and so has Facebook, as it hopes the increased bandwidth will prevent a crash if too many people watch and chat at the same time on its social network.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 