On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:46 AM, serge s.fedoro...@gmail.com wrote:
what do you think of this post ?
http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/
His first point, that modeling the social graph accurately is impossible is
of course true. It is impossible to model reality exactly like it is,
because we are already using all the matter in the universe to model
reality in the first place.
And the social act aspect of declaring a relationship to someone is very
true as well. I think he is correct in saying that the we're gonna
accurately model all social relationships on the planet plan is bound to
fail.
Relationships on facebook and twitter and so on don't actually *model*
social relationships, but rather *are* social relationships. We as users
define the meaning of them, we say things like don't know him really, but
I think I'm Facebook friends with him. Facebook friend is not the same
thing as being friends, it is a social relationship of its own, which we
have collectively defined.
The social graph does not accurately model the intricacies of our social
life, in fact, it increases the complexity of it.
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