The end of social http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/12/the-end-of-social.html

The end of social http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/12/the-end-of-social.html

. The end of social http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/12/the-end-of-social.html “…Plenty has been written about Facebook and privacy, Facebook and "forced" sharing…But none of the many reactions to Facebook get to the core of the problem, which isn't privacy at all. The real problem becomes visible when you look at it from the other direction. What effect does massive sharing have on the recipients?...I have hundreds of Facebook friends; do I really care to be informed about what everyone is listening to?...A little bit of information…is interesting, but a deluge is The Big Snore…automated trust systems undermine trust by incentivizing cooperation because of the fear of punishment rather than actual trust…If we rely on computational systems for a trust framework, we actually lose our instincts and capacity for personal trust; even more, we cease to care about it…Taking this a couple of steps further, the article points out that, to many people, Facebook's "frictionless" sharing doesn't enhance sharing; it makes sharing meaningless…”