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. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://neo4j-community-discussions.438527.n3.nabble.com/the-social-graph-is-neither-blog-post-tp3527242p3527242.html > Sent from the Neo4j Community Discussions mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > -- Jacob Hansson Phone: +46 (0) 763503395 Twitter: @jakewins _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
