Open Techknowledgy: What makes up your social graph?
By: Dennis Mongello
Issue date: 8/24/07 Section: Ed-Op
Originally published: 8/24/07 at 2:56 AM EST
Last update: 8/24/07 at 2:55 AM EST
Originally published: 8/24/07 at 2:56 AM EST
Last update: 8/24/07 at 2:55 AM EST
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Fitzpatrick warns against Facebook's users becoming slaves to the site. Concern might also arise according to who owns this one central site (remember when News Corp. bought all your personal information on MySpace?). Having these services spread around across several owners might be a better idea. This also gives people a choice as to which sites they want to use for which function. For example, someone might like Google Video for sharing videos more than YouTube. It would be unfortunate to force people into using one site if they want to take advantage of their social graph.
As the Web moves ahead with Web 2.0 technologies, social networking will become even more ubiquitous and it will become more important to be on these sites to improve one's social capital. It would also be a hassle to connect to each site individually; it's a time consuming and, quite frankly, needless task. The competing sites also won't interconnect their sites on their own, and that's where Fitzpatrick's system comes in. His proposed framework just makes things simpler overall, and what can I say? Making things simpler for the end user is always a good thing.
Dennis Mongello is a senior majoring in information systems and is author of the Open Techknowledgy column.
As the Web moves ahead with Web 2.0 technologies, social networking will become even more ubiquitous and it will become more important to be on these sites to improve one's social capital. It would also be a hassle to connect to each site individually; it's a time consuming and, quite frankly, needless task. The competing sites also won't interconnect their sites on their own, and that's where Fitzpatrick's system comes in. His proposed framework just makes things simpler overall, and what can I say? Making things simpler for the end user is always a good thing.
Dennis Mongello is a senior majoring in information systems and is author of the Open Techknowledgy column.
