See also: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_loginpage1.php
and be sure to check the comments from all the facebook users who apparently seem to think that is the new facebook login page... wtf!?!? On 12/2/2010, "Rob Myers" <[email protected]> wrote: >The concept of relationships used by social networking software is a >limited one compared to the concept of relationships used in sociological >social netowrk analysis. I social networking software all relationships are >positive. You only have friends, not enemies, so any connection between two >people is assumed to be positive and privileged by the software as such. > >Outside of computerised social networking services, real-world social >networks can contain *negative* relationships. You can have *enemies*, and >they can cause you real-world harm. You don't want them being given the >privileges within the service that friendship affords. Considering the >information that social networking services contain, this can have harmful >real-world consequences. > >When a company decides to automatically create social networking software >relationships for you based on all the relationships they can discover from >other data sources that implicitly contain information about real-world >social networks, such as your email contacts, this cannot differentiate >between the two kinds of relationship. When they create positive social >networking service relationships this gives negative relationships the same >privileges as positive relationships. > >Which is why Google really shouldn't have done that with Buzz - > >http://fugitivus.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/fuck-you-google/ > >"I use my private Gmail account to email my boyfriend and my mother. > >Thereâs a BIG drop-off between them and my other âmost frequentâ >contacts. > >You know who my third most frequent contact is? > >My abusive ex-husband. > >[...]" > >_______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
