Zadie Smith about Facebook

[Azrael]

[Tinker]

Facebook is what it is. Of course all of the social networking applications can be handled via websites with RSS feeds and a friendship applet that can connect to others. OpenID could handle the credentialling and you could have a closed system where genuinely only those who actually have your credentials are hooked into your feed.

Perhaps eventually, but for now it's still a fairly new technology.

[Hapax Legomenon]

Facebook is the best site online for trolling. Why troll anonymously or with an avatar/persona when you can do it as yourself right to people's inane comments, like 'had a tuna hoagie for lunch' or 'I'm @ the mall ' The people that post interesting things get neglected--Tuna Hoagie gets twenty-five comments. Tinker's right.

[Tinker]

Well saying it's a new technology is misleading. It's that it takes a lot of configuring and is beyond most people's skillsets, though it's not actually that terribly difficult. The modern Content Management Systems are getting far more sophisticated and I know of a couple of app developers that have Web GUI's for the creation of apps that can be published to iPhone or Droid. Mostly its lists and organization of lists that apps run. You can setup information aggregators and sell it as an app. Most of my IT has related to phones in the past few years. It used to be linking up their phones to their data. Now it's much easier to do that and people don't need me to do it for them as often. One of my more recent forays into that was a lady who I helped basically just choose her plans, by knowing what questions to ask I helped her buy a phone. These are the future of the IT industry ultimately. Google+ is already one of the largest repositories of people's actual useful data. It has the largest network of users on the planet. Facebook always talks about how many users they have, Google doesn't put it into those terms publically as often, it's not part of their brand identity. And this is the entire difference between Google's brand and Facebook from top to bottom. Facebook is ostentacious and has gained a reputation for being fast and loose with your data. On the other hand, Google has a better reputation in that regard.

Google will probably hold the final iteration of the centralized networking provider.

The future of this is in personal data security.

[Hoosiernorm]

Yeah I remember how the Citizens Band radio or CB radio was going to change the world.

[Tinker]

[Hoosiernorm]

[Tinker]

Looking at individual pieces of telecom equipment is to me only a piece of the puzzle. It was one piece of gear among many. I would say that its use by truckers alone was pretty phenomenal.

[Colonel Sun]

[Hapax Legomenon]

[Azrael]

[Tinker]

[Colonel Sun]

[Azrael]

[Tinker]

[Azrael]

Facebook's Randi Zuckerburg:

[Tinker]

Yes Azrael, their war against anonymity is interesting.

[Azrael]

I think that there is a personality disorder or two at work with the Zuckerburg twins.

[Azrael]

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[Azrael]