The Problem with Social Networks
Posted on:: September 26th, 2003
Jerry Michalski has a piece in RedHerring about why the explicitness of social networks such as Friendster get in their way. So true. And a theme — the price of explicitness — that’s looming larger and larger in my own thinking about stuff. That and confusing clarity with truth. A
Ambiguity sort of rulz!
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I…… just…… wonder, between the….. mislped wrdos…… & all dis ambiguity…….. and earthquakes….. and generals acting like democrats….. and movie stars star cluster fucking….. where’s teh happiness? Remember …. it’s about people…. and last I looked…. peeps are explicit. I have a nose, eyes, mouth – pretty explicit. I may go by (or hide behind) my Fakester profile, but…… teh goal of being ambiguos….. gee….. I’m ambivalent about….. um………… it.
My daer fienrd Mrac, I mean, Avast, me matey! Or whatever the Odd Way to Talk is for the day:
But peeps are (IMO) mainly implicit. What’s explicit about us is so little compared to the vastness of our implictness…
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