Alice Marwick directed me to an interesting analysis on Facebook’s redesign, which posits that,
Facebook’s new design, as many of us have been noting since the company began testing it months ago, seems to emphasis features also seen in trendy new web services favored by us self-styled “early adopter” types.
Mark Slee of Facebook, in talking about [...]
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What is Facebook for?
Posted in identity, sns on July 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Social vs. Collaborative Spaces
Posted in collaboration, sns on July 8, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been ruminating for a while now on The Real Paul Jones’ excellent post on the differences between social and collaborative spaces and practices, and the implications:
This points out the weaknesses of social networks versus networks for collaboration. When using say del.icio.us, I want collaborators for much of my research and teaching and work. But [...]
Twitter as Expressive Identity Affordance
Posted in identity, sns on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
There was a thoughtspurt the other day among several components of my distributed non-me thoughtspace - Fred and Warren Ellis commenting on a Techcrunch post, the Real Paul Jones commenting on Fred’s post and offering his own thoughts - and all of it together, and substantial other peer pressure, convinced me to join Twitter. And [...]
Responsibilities
Posted in research, sns on January 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Via Nicole Ellison, SNS researcher par excellance, comes this:
So, word on the street has it that friends lists privacy controls are on the way. I believe allowing Facebook users to specify who has access to which information will allow them to take advantage of the self-presentational opportunities afforded by the site without having to use [...]
Beyond Beacon
Posted in sns, tagged facebook, sns on November 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
There was naturally a lot written about Facebook’s über-creepy Beacon application when it launched last week; now thanks to user pushback there’s political movement there as well.
This pushback is good, and I think that Facebook is making a massive mistake here, trashing the trust and goodwill that had previously existed [PDF] as compared to other [...]
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