by Tinker » Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:16 pm
Calling 'social netwroking' groupthink is a distinction without a difference.
A social network is simply in its purest form, the people that someone knows. IT's a group of people that know each other. So a corporation is a social network. Prior to the advent of this technology the opportunity cost for social networking was incredibly high. Now the opportunity cost is low. So each person if they leverage the network of people they know actually is the head of a multinational conglomerate. Every single person.
To call it groupthink is to be stuck in the prior paradigm. It's trying to make the new thing fit completely and entirely into the categories that preceded it.
The canary didn't die because this mine is dangerous, it died because it's lazy and wasn't raised with a proper work ethic.