I know I’ve blogged on this topic before, but I can’t seem to find the original post at the moment.
What is the point of de-friending? I’ve maybe only done it once and it was right after I started playing Farmville when I added a bunch of people I didn’t know in order to get free gifts. I de-friended these people because I have no idea who they are, and I don’t want them accessing my private info. But other than that, I’ve never had the urge to de-friend someone I actually know. The closest thing would be not friending someone because I don’t know them that well.
At what point does someone say to themselves, “Hey, this jerk! DEFRIENDED!”? Is there something I’m missing here? I was kinda under the impression that a social netowork was about building a network of people you know, not de-friending people that you haven’t talked to in 2 months.
I probably don’t talk to 95% of my friends list on any kind of a regular basis, but that’s because the fact that we are in a network changes that. Just because I haven’t talked to someone doesn’t mean I can see whats going on in their life, that’s what the activity stream is for. It’s like we are talking, just not directly to each other. I can see that they got a new job, broke up, moved to a new town, and so forth. It’s passive conversation.
Categories: Personal · Web
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tune in to mattmccullough.net/live today around 2:30 for the live broadcast. It will most likely suck, as all I have is my built in isight on my macbook pro, But it’s something if you are interested.
Categories: Montclair State University · Video · Web
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 · 2 Comments
Email is dead. Admit it, when was the last time you said, “Hey, let me email you this cool video”. No, you just send it on facebook, or del.icio.us for the more geek inclined.
No, email is more or less a notification system now. To tell us when our Chinese food is getting delivered, or when someone wants to add us as a friend. Just as email was built on top of legacy protocols, facebook is built on top of email. And even still, there are applications built on top of facebook. Do you get this tier-ing concept now?
So, with this new communication standard established, why is it that people continue to invite strangers to random events and applications. The way I treat facebook, is that getting invited to an event on facebook is the equivalent to a phone call, or an IM. And yet people don’t take these things seriously like I do. Am I taking social netoworking too seriously, or is the rest of the community just behind on this one?
Categories: Web
Tagged: E-mail, Facebook
We have not only begun campus upgrades of network utilities, But I have also optimized my TCP/IP settings with a piece of windows freeware called TCP optimizer. Below are the new results, and compare them with the results in my old post below. The difference is almost 100x!
Categories: Desktop · Montclair State University · Web
