Facebook. It's not your father's AOL. On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm following Melanie Mitchell's SFI complexity mooc. > https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/74-introduction-to- > complexity-spring-2017/segments/5687 > > In the first video, it was mentioned Facebook is a fascinating example of > a complex system, and in particular, how information traverses the network. > > So here's a group question or two: > - If you use Facebook, how do you use it and why? > - And if yes, how is it an information source for you? > > My interest is the contrast between Facebook and Twitter. Twitter is "the > most information per square inch" but Facebook seems to me to be all over > the map. > > A second difference is that there are people for which Facebook *is* The > Web. By that I mean they enter it and stay there. It is their "email", > "web", "social", "team (slack)", "tv" (FB recently started streaming > video), and more. Sorta like the browser is for other ecosystems. > > So any interesting observation on The FaceBook Phenomenon? > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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