Comments on: Nobody gets out of Facebook alive http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/ Paul Currion struggles to explain himself. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:53:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: When social software isn’t | The Unforgiving Minute http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/comment-page-1/#comment-567 When social software isn’t | The Unforgiving Minute Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:35:24 +0000 http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/#comment-567 [...] company has reversed its policy regarding retention of personal data (as we all know, something of a bugbear of mine), in similar fashion to the reversal of policy regarding the Beacon advertising system. Why does [...] [...] company has reversed its policy regarding retention of personal data (as we all know, something of a bugbear of mine), in similar fashion to the reversal of policy regarding the Beacon advertising system. Why does [...]

]]> By: Jelena http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/comment-page-1/#comment-229 Jelena Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:14:56 +0000 http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/#comment-229 Sunday Times feature.... http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3553216.ece Sunday Times feature….
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3553216.ece

]]> By: Jelena http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Jelena Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:26:49 +0000 http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/#comment-178 Well done Paul. Decline is there.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7257073.stm Well done Paul. Decline is there….

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7257073.stm

]]> By: JMK http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/comment-page-1/#comment-175 JMK Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:55:38 +0000 http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/#comment-175 Another reason not to like Facebook..... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/technology/11facebook.html Another reason not to like Facebook…..

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/technology/11facebook.html

]]> By: J A Ginsburg http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/comment-page-1/#comment-174 J A Ginsburg Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:53:25 +0000 http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/#comment-174 Hello Paul, My name is Janet Ginsburg. I first heard about you though Nancy White and later Nigel Snoad, and I've thought for some time our paths ought to cross. Reading your Facebook diatribe made me howl so much, I thought, "Well, now, there's a kindred spirit!" The News Feed feature may have a sort of weird poetry to it, but I now know all kinds of banal details about people that I so wish I didn't. Thoreau wrote about lives lived in "quiet desperation" and I find I'm kind of missing the quiet... I am also a little nervous about all those nifty parlor-game apps requiring that you give permission to anonymous app-producers to mine your data. Beyond these personal qualms, there is something disturbingly off about how different types of content are equalized. Not all social interactions are of identical significance or enduring value. And yet even the most trivial social interaction on Facebook can become a headline on a newsfeed and achieve cyber-immortality (fossilization?) in an archive. Likewise, I also find it disconcerting to see "friends" piled together, past, present, important, fleeting and the occasional "how did *he* get on my list?" Although I still have a "just above flat-lining" presence on Facebook because I am curious to see whether it ever does turn into anything of real interest and value, I warn all would-be "friends" that I'm a bad Facebooker, and if they want to email me, to please do it directly.... Anyway, thanks for making my day. cheers, Janet The problem isn't the idea of web-based social networking but the fact that, at least as defined by Facebook, it doesn't always match real life social networking. Hello Paul,

My name is Janet Ginsburg. I first heard about you though Nancy White and later Nigel Snoad, and I’ve thought for some time our paths ought to cross. Reading your Facebook diatribe made me howl so much, I thought, “Well, now, there’s a kindred spirit!”

The News Feed feature may have a sort of weird poetry to it, but I now know all kinds of banal details about people that I so wish I didn’t. Thoreau wrote about lives lived in “quiet desperation” and I find I’m kind of missing the quiet…

I am also a little nervous about all those nifty parlor-game apps requiring that you give permission to anonymous app-producers to mine your data.

Beyond these personal qualms, there is something disturbingly off about how different types of content are equalized. Not all social interactions are of identical significance or enduring value. And yet even the most trivial social interaction on Facebook can become a headline on a newsfeed and achieve cyber-immortality (fossilization?) in an archive. Likewise, I also find it disconcerting to see “friends” piled together, past, present, important, fleeting and the occasional “how did *he* get on my list?”

Although I still have a “just above flat-lining” presence on Facebook because I am curious to see whether it ever does turn into anything of real interest and value, I warn all would-be “friends” that I’m a bad Facebooker, and if they want to email me, to please do it directly….

Anyway, thanks for making my day.

cheers,

Janet

The problem isn’t the idea of web-based social networking but the fact that, at least as defined by Facebook, it doesn’t always match real life social networking.

]]> By: Jelena http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Jelena Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:36:28 +0000 http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/#comment-168 LOL... well...well...I hope I am among those 20 special creatures who actually met you. LOL… well…well…I hope I am among those 20 special creatures who actually met you.

]]> By: Paul Currion http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Paul Currion Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:59:39 +0000 http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/#comment-154 About 280 of them think that I'm somebody else... About 280 of them think that I’m somebody else…

]]> By: Jelena http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Jelena Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:10:16 +0000 http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/#comment-153 I always wondered how come you have almost 300 friends? I always wondered how come you have almost 300 friends?

]]> By: JMK http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/comment-page-1/#comment-149 JMK Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:05:53 +0000 http://www.currion.net/2008/01/25/get-out-of-social-networking-while-you-still-can/#comment-149 I hear you. I joined a few months ago but just don't see what all the fuss is about. The irony seems to be that while facebook is probably most useful to people in our business, who move around a lot and so can't always stay in direct contact with their friends - the site actually seems to be used primarily by people who could quite easily ring up (or in the case of college kids...walk down the dormitory hall and visit) most of the people on their "friends" list. So what's the value added of the site? Apart from turning people into vampires, of course. Have to say, though - I do love scrabulous. Wanna play? ;-) I hear you. I joined a few months ago but just don’t see what all the fuss is about. The irony seems to be that while facebook is probably most useful to people in our business, who move around a lot and so can’t always stay in direct contact with their friends – the site actually seems to be used primarily by people who could quite easily ring up (or in the case of college kids…walk down the dormitory hall and visit) most of the people on their “friends” list. So what’s the value added of the site? Apart from turning people into vampires, of course.

Have to say, though – I do love scrabulous. Wanna play? ;-)

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