Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem
Also, MARC is dead. On Jun 21, 2010 9:04 PM, "Ethan Gruber" wrote: All social networks follow the same path. They become popular and are then inundated with spam. Myspace still exists, but it is essentially "dead" because it fails to grow its population. When was the last time you saw a movie trailer that provided a link to its myspace page? At least three years, probably. You may not receive many spam messages through Facebook, but the forced linking of your interests to official Facebook pages is the beginning of the end for Facebook. You may like Dave Matthews Band, and as of a month or two ago they can send updates to your news feed every day, regardless of whether you want updates from your interests or not. Moreover, even if you remove all of your interests, that data is still stored in Facebook's databases, and you'll still get recommendations to follow things you used to follow. Facebook is on the way out. It's as simple as that. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Genny Engel wrote: > Seems to honor privacy settings, though. Otherwise > http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=poopines...
Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem
All social networks follow the same path. They become popular and are then inundated with spam. Myspace still exists, but it is essentially "dead" because it fails to grow its population. When was the last time you saw a movie trailer that provided a link to its myspace page? At least three years, probably. You may not receive many spam messages through Facebook, but the forced linking of your interests to official Facebook pages is the beginning of the end for Facebook. You may like Dave Matthews Band, and as of a month or two ago they can send updates to your news feed every day, regardless of whether you want updates from your interests or not. Moreover, even if you remove all of your interests, that data is still stored in Facebook's databases, and you'll still get recommendations to follow things you used to follow. Facebook is on the way out. It's as simple as that. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Genny Engel wrote: > Seems to honor privacy settings, though. Otherwise > http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=poopiness would retrieve WAY more > records. > > Genny Engel > > >>> ranti.ju...@gmail.com 06/21/10 03:31PM >>> > For example: > http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=whatever > > > ranti. > > -- > Bulk mail. Postage paid. >
Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem
Seems to honor privacy settings, though. Otherwise http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=poopiness would retrieve WAY more records. Genny Engel >>> ranti.ju...@gmail.com 06/21/10 03:31PM >>> For example: http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=whatever ranti. -- Bulk mail. Postage paid.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem
It is what youropenbook is using: http://youropenbook.org/ -nruest On 10-06-21 07:40 PM, Bill Dueber wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: Hmm, interesting. Facebook is on the way out, anyway. The question is what social network, if any, will replace it. My Geek Ire is as aroused as anyone else's over privacy concerns and such, but with half a billion users, all but roughly 11 of whom couldn't possibly care any less about privacy and/or don't know anything about it, Facebook is hardly "on the way out" any more than Google is. Certainly both will someday be replaced, but I recommend breathing normally between now and then, as opposed to holding your breath ... The fact that something is good doesn't mean people will use it. The fact that something is bad doesn't mean they won't (thank god, or our OPACs would be mostly ignored...) -Bill- -- -- Nick Ruest Digital Strategies Librarian Vice President - McMaster University Academic Librarians Association McMaster University Mills Memorial Library 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, ON L8S 4L6 Phone: 905.525.9140 ext. 21276 Email: rue...@mcmaster.ca http://library.mcmaster.ca/contact/ruest-nicholas http://ruebot.net/ "Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a personal process embedded in the human spirit." - Abbie Hoffman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > Hmm, interesting. Facebook is on the way out, anyway. The question is > what > social network, if any, will replace it. > My Geek Ire is as aroused as anyone else's over privacy concerns and such, but with half a billion users, all but roughly 11 of whom couldn't possibly care any less about privacy and/or don't know anything about it, Facebook is hardly "on the way out" any more than Google is. Certainly both will someday be replaced, but I recommend breathing normally between now and then, as opposed to holding your breath ... The fact that something is good doesn't mean people will use it. The fact that something is bad doesn't mean they won't (thank god, or our OPACs would be mostly ignored...) -Bill-
Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem
Hmm, interesting. Facebook is on the way out, anyway. The question is what social network, if any, will replace it. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Ranti Junus wrote: > For example: > http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=whatever > > > ranti. > > -- > Bulk mail. Postage paid. >
