Gee Mike, that is really creepy. I remember when I first came to the Learning org. List and to Futurework. I revealed a lot of stuff about me and my family since my work was grounded in experience rather than theory. Gradually I realized that these things don't go away and stopped doing it but what do we lose in the process in terms of problem solving and arriving at conclusions?
REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 2:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Re: Fake Twitter Followers Becomes Multimillion-Dollar Business - NYTimes.com.htm Arthur wrote: AC> <http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/personaltech/index.html> AC> AC> Fake Twitter Followers Becomes Multimillion-Dollar Business AC> AC> [snip] Bizarre! But no more bizarre than "gold farming". I was just reading Charles Stross' _Rule 34_ in which terms such as "choice architectures" and "automated social engineering" come up. One element in the story is the de novo creation of a chat room or other "social" on-line site peopled variously by real persons and chat-bots (but chiefly the latter) engineered to create a warm and trusting environment for visitors who will immediately encounter conviviality and a welcome. The purpose, of course, is to manipulate the visitors' "choice architectures" toward revealing private information. I suppose having lots of entrained twits can tilt people's estimation of trustworthiness or credibility. Mike G wrote: MG> I have about 550 "followers" on twitter Yow! I'd have to think about it but, just of the top of my head, I don't *want* 550 people to know what I'm thinking today, the moreso anything I'm thinking that I can cram into a few dozen characters in haste. Jeez, I'm such a ol' fuddy-duddy. (I even use email.) There's just *all kinds* of weird fuvg out there on the net that I miss because I don't do farcebook or twitter or the like. I read about the bizarre developments in the fiction of Stross or Gibson a few years after it was hip to know about them. - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
