George Siemens

MAY 14, 2010

Facebook is getting negative attention for (again) messing around with privacy. A small, but growing movement now calls for a Facebook exodus on May 13. Valdis Krebs argues that Facebook is toast due to its structural model, invoking the increasingly popular AOL reference: It is the structure of Facebook that foretells it a fate of AOL — a popular online site in the 1990s that grew quickly, with great promise and PR, and is now a much smaller collection of speciality sites.

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Doc Searls

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Nearly all the ads I see on Facebook are ones like these two, next to Mark Zuckerberg’s latest post : Besides being false and misleading clickbait, they are not from espn.com.

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Harold Jarche

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Facebook dominates online social networking. This is not the same situation as when companies once dominated TV advertising, as today even ad-driven Google has less influence on us than Facebook does. That one company has such global influence should be of concern to all of us.

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Dan Pontefract

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

I left Facebook. ” No, I simply stopped using Facebook and I didn’t make a big deal about it. If someone sent me an inmail message via Facebook, I’d also answer those through the social hub feature of my Blackberry Z10. And what of my Facebook travel behaviour?

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Dan Pontefract

JANUARY 16, 2013

Somehow, the chatter gravitated to Facebook. Our accountant friend chimed in and said, “The partners and I decided this year to ban Facebook. Do you really believe Facebook — or any social media for that matter — is a time waster?” facebook social media

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Martijn Linssen

APRIL 23, 2010

why not both Home About Contact Friday, 23 April 2010 Face Off for Facebook? Theres a lot of talk about Facebook. Theres a lot of numbers about Facebook too. And especially that last medium made me wonder: where on earth are those Facebook users? Business or Pleasure? -

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Doc Searls

MAY 23, 2012

Making the rounds is The Facebook Fallacy , a killer essay by Michael Wolff in MIT Technology Review. Facebook, with its 900 million users, valuation of around $100 billion, and the bulk of its business in traditional display advertising, is now at the heart of the heart of the fallacy.

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Euen Semple

MARCH 16, 2018

For whatever reasons Facebook is where that currently happens most often for me. A great comments thread on Facebook, in large measure due to Louise Robey's first response. When I wrote the post I wondered if it was too business related for Facebook, almost succumbing to the conventional wisdom that Facebook is for friends, LinkedIn is for work. Well, OK, perhaps that is overstating it a bit.

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George Siemens

MAY 7, 2010

One of the best descriptions of facebook that I’ve seen (on a blog comment somewhere) was: CIA+McDonald’s=Facebook. This formula addresses the secret and intrusive aspect of Facebook…and draws attention to broad appeal and exceptional ease of use/access. But Facebook is another matter – breaking trust with users by repeated violations of privacy (bypassing the opt-in approach generally expected with privacy changes).

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Martijn Linssen

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Actually, I mean “More on Facebook,” but as I was once accused of using fancy headlines to draw clicks (to this site with no advertising), I thought I would play the part and see if that behavior makes any difference. Also, this isn’t about Facebook at all. I opined recently that the problem with asking: “Why isn’t our enterprise platform as easy to use as Facebook” is that we use these platforms for vastly different purposes.

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Dan Pontefract

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: Facebook. My social media journey, like many of you, included Facebook at a time when most of us had no idea where social networking was heading. As for Facebook, I’m conflicted.

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David Weinberger

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

This was before Facebook, remember. Here’s a four-minute video from July 13, 2003, of Zack Rosen describing the social networking tool he and his group were building for the Howard Dean campaign.

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Dan Pontefract

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

To those that are beginning to utilize LinkedIn like Facebook, my apologies in advance, but I’ve been removing you from my network list. social social media social networking facebook linkedin

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Doc Searls

MARCH 6, 2013

I just looked up facebook advertising on Google News , and got these results: More Facebook Ads Are Coming, Your Friends Will Finally Hit Delete. Disruptions: As User Interaction on Facebook Drops, Sharing … New York Times (blog)-Mar 3, 2013.

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Martijn Linssen

OCTOBER 7, 2010

why not both Home About Contact Thursday, 7 October 2010 Facebook Groups: their own Trojan Horse When Facebook announced their Facebook Groups yesterday, I had a funny feeling. A typical Facebook whoopsey-doopsey? Business or Pleasure? -

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Dan Pontefract

AUGUST 26, 2017

Purpose apple facebook humanity mark zuckerberg purpose Tim CookDuring each spring, politicians, c-suite executives, movie stars, rock singers and authors are carted out in front of newly minted graduates to deliver “the commencement.

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David Weinberger

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

We should be grateful that Facebook has renamed its Internet access service from Internet.org to Free Basics by Facebook. The idea is that if you’re in the developing world, you’ll get access to the “Internet” which is really access to Facebook and all that it permits. The Facebook service is to the Internet as Snickers is to lunch: a poor replacement that lacks all of the essential elements that make a lunch a lunch and the Internet the Internet.

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Martijn Linssen

MAY 6, 2010

Comparing that to my calculations of active Facebook users ( thank you Facebook for being so Open about it! ), there are 260 million active Facebook users at max: 2 times the monthly unique visitors So, there are 13 times as many active Facebook users, as there are Twitter users.

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David Weinberger

MAY 7, 2015

Facebook researchers have published an article in Science, certainly one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed journals. It concludes (roughly) that Facebook’s filtering out of news from sources whose politics you disagree with does not cause as much polarization as some have thought. The post Facebook, filtering, polarization, and a flawed study?

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

JUNE 30, 2014

The Facebook experiments are actually very clever. Facebook has been tinkering with this content stream since day one. Facebook is an advertising company, and therefore the product it sells is the induction of beliefs in the users. Sure, it reinforces Facebook''s image as a somewhat greasy operation that will manipulate results in order to satisfy the needs of its advertisers (hence making it no different from Dr. Oz and your local news broadcast).

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Euen Semple

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

So what has all his got to do with Facebook? I am grateful to those friends who have had the courage to share their experiences there on Facebook, and grateful to live in a time where we have platforms to share such experiences in ways that we might not otherwise I am currently listening to John O’Donahue reading his wonderful book Beauty.

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David Weinberger

JULY 1, 2014

I have an op-ed/column up at CNN about the Facebook experiment. Just as a quick example, I’m not convinced that the Facebook experiment was as egregious as the headlines would have us believe. All I’ll say here is how struck I am again (as always) about the need leave out most of everything when writing writing goes from web-shaped to rectangular.

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Doc Searls

MARCH 23, 2018

Let’s start with Facebook’s Surveillance Machine , by Zeynep Tufekci in last Monday’s New York Times. These are Facebook’s true customers, whom it works hard to please.”

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Nine Shift

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

And our new Facebook page at parentsandboys is generating a lot of interest, likes, followers already. A new citizens organization is being planned by myself and co-author Julie Coates called ParentsOfBoys.org. It is just two weeks old. With 100,000 young men probably dying again this year, same number as died in 2018 from the despair of being denied college, the issue is on our minds.

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Dan Pontefract

MAY 29, 2010

But, alas, I’ve recently developed petulance for one of the world’s finest creations … Facebook. According to Google , Facebook now occupies the #1 visited website with 540 million unique visits in April, 2010 (after removing Google itself from the research). Bullying and Facebook.

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 15, 2011

It’s Facebook Week on Share&Learn 15-19 August. Each weekday there will be a discussion on a different aspect of using Facebook for learning. Mon 15 Aug – Using Facebook for personal learning/professional development. Tue 16 Aug – Facebook groups and learning.

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Dan Pontefract

AUGUST 28, 2013

First of all, I suppose I should thank Mark Zuckerberg for coming up with the term ‘ facebook ‘ Wow. Second of all, I suppose I should have written a book about ‘ facebook ‘ and called it “Flat Facebook: How To Get More Hits To Your Website “ Seriously.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Facebook seems to be coming up everywhere the past few weeks. The most recent, which finally got me to post, was a Stephen Downes post - I'm Majoring in Facebook, How about You? The class has each student creating applications in Facebook and presenting to potential investors.

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David Weinberger

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Facebook has settled a class action lawsuit and officially ended its “Beacon&# program that posted into your feed news of what you’ve bought at other sites. It was odd when Facebook introduced Beacon. The cheap irony is that Facebook exists because it enables its users to create and maintain intimacy (ok, intimacy of a sometimes weird new form), yet it seems not to be able to read the signals of intimacy.

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Euen Semple

MARCH 20, 2017

At the same time my friend Laurent posted this update saying that no one takes any risks with what they share on Facebook any more and that it is going to die soon because the content is becoming bland and boring. Facebook is like Twitter, or any online platform for that matter. I was mulling over ideas for a post this morning about the mix of excitement and fear that I feel before doing any public event let alone a big commitment like the trip I'm beginning this week.

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Euen Semple

OCTOBER 6, 2012

Walter Adamson posted a really interesting article about the scale of Facebook and the way it is able to support terrifyingly large amounts of information, constant high levels of activity, and global reach to 1,000,000,000 people with almost 100% uptime on comparatively modest resources.

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Ross Dawson

JANUARY 13, 2015

The personality-assessment algorithm was solely based on Facebook likes made by participants, with results compared to the assessments of people who know them well. The post Can Facebook-informed algorithms know you better than your mother?

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Doc Searls

JANUARY 5, 2009

Much of the activity that used to happen out in the wild unfettered Net, over email, open (XMPP-based) IM and blog posts is now happening inside the Facebook silo. It is AOL 2.0. I avoid the place, but that’s getting harder. On this current visit I see 7 friend suggestions, 273 friend requests, 6 event invitations, 5 good karma from debo requests, 1 good karma request, 220 other requests, 4 new updates, 235 items in my inbox, 7 pokes and 522 friends to start with.

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Nine Shift

JUNE 26, 2014

Next prediction: the anti-male feminists will extort money from Facebook for another STEM camp type educational program.

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David Weinberger

MAY 26, 2010

I’m reposting it with his permission, FYA (for your amusement): I have been using Facebook for a while with an account name which is the Finnish equivalent to “Ano Nymous&#. I have tried not to tell anything to Facebook about myself. Herkko Hietanen , a Berkman Fellow, posted this to a mailing list.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

Found via Publishing Enterprise Content To Facebook - Alfresco - a content management system has provided hooks for it to be used to deliver content to Facebook users. This model, where Facebook becomes a platform for application development has some really interesting aspects.

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Nine Shift

JULY 14, 2011

MySpace, and all the other second-place social media sites, are just as important in creating the new economy and society as Facebook. 100 years ago it took 2,562 men, including my great grandfather, to start car companies in order to get the 3, the Big 3, to succeed.

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David Weinberger

JANUARY 11, 2010

Marhsall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb doesn’t trust Mark Zuckerberg’s explanation of why Facebook is defaulting more towards publicness : What makes Facebook think the world is becoming more public and less private? But blogging is tiny compared to Facebook! Not very many people write blogs, almost everyone is on Facebook.

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Ross Dawson

MAY 18, 2015

Probably the most reported aspect of my opening keynote at INMA World Congress in New York last week on Creating the Future of News was my response to an audience question about how publishers should think about Facebook’s new offer to publishers to host their articles for mobile viewing. “The danger is that publishers become overly dependent on Facebook for distribution, with no guarantee that the favourable terms will continue.

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Euen Semple

JANUARY 24, 2014

As people have moved into places like Facebook and Twitter the energy has moved away from blogging to some extent. I, like many bloggers, used to post links to my blog posts on Facebook or Google+. So I started posting the entire content of my blog posts on Facebook and Google+. Blogging is still one of the most useful and fun things you can do. I still blog at The Obvious? because that is my home on the web and the space I am in control of.

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Euen Semple

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

I often think of that book in the context of Facebook. This can make Facebook a source of comparison and jealousy. Is being more honest on Facebook a case of washing our dirty laundry in public or an opportunity for psychological maturity - or something in between? Many years ago I read Radical Honesty by Brad Blanton. In it he describes the psychological benefits of having no secrets. None. We all have a tendency to want to share the good bits in our lives.

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Euen Semple

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Interesting to read a BBC story that there have been 10 million interactions on the subject of the Scottish referendum on Facebook. It confirms my sense that our use of Facebook is maturing and moving beyond just sharing images of cats. This got me thinking again about why we find the idea of "Facebook for work" so challenging. This is bad enough on something that "doesn''t matter" like Facebook but all the more significant in the world of work.

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David Weinberger

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Facebook has announced that it’s going to start adding to your newsfeed stories that you don’t know about but that are on the same topic as ones you follow. Facebook has opted for relevancy.

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