Facebook Shares Users Social Behavior
“People who are members of online social networks are not so much ‘networking’ as they are ‘broadcasting their lives to an outer tier of acquaintances who aren’t necessarily inside the Dunbar circle,’” Lee Rainie, the director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, says.
I wonder if they’re drawing their own conclusions from incomplete data. How much of the lack of interaction on the site is due to the user base not knowing how to use Facebook’s features? How much of it is due to the interactions taking place offline? I’m guessing that Facebook is only a piece of the puzzle in these people’s lives (and I deeply hope so).
I feel like this more often than I should.
Epic.
This song is habit forming.
This presentation does a great job of explaining what the credit crisis everyone is talking about is about. Pretty much centers around greed and an almost obsessive compulsion to take short cuts to get what one wants. Too bad everyone that participated was so short sighted they didn’t work in sustainable, long-lasting ways with an eye toward the future. Now all the credit junkies are jonesing for a fix, and the supply has run dry.
I’m quite happy to let those who dig their own grave lay in it. What makes me unhappy about the whole situation is that those who created this mess now expect those of us who acted responsibly and within our means to step up and haul their ass out of the fire.
