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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. MORE
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. MORE
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? MORE
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? MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
Next prediction: the anti-male feminists will extort money from Facebook for another STEM camp type educational program. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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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. MORE
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.” MORE
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? - MORE
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. MORE
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 MORE
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). MORE
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. MORE
But given the fact that most people don't use RSS and following blogs isn't as straightforward as it might be, and the fact that I currently get the best responses and conversations on Facebook, I will continue to repost my blog posts there. In my own modest way I'm helping to keep Facebook interesting, helping them to make money. I blog because I enjoy blogging. I have been doing it for so long that I can safely assume that I will always blog. MORE
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. MORE
Jay Cross has an interesting post about using Facebook in the organization, and makes a connection I hadn’t seen (and wish I had :).  He’s citing another post on FaceBook and the Enterprise, where JP Rangaswami posits that Facebook can be used to allow individuals to track what their bosses are doing, as role models. I’m not sure Facebook is the right tool, but a combination of tools might make sense and Facebook’s APIs might make it possible. MORE
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. MORE
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? - MORE
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 MORE
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). MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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? MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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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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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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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?
Dan Pontefract
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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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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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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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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.
David Weinberger
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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.
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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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? -
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.
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.
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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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).
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?
Euen Semple
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
But given the fact that most people don't use RSS and following blogs isn't as straightforward as it might be, and the fact that I currently get the best responses and conversations on Facebook, I will continue to repost my blog posts there. In my own modest way I'm helping to keep Facebook interesting, helping them to make money. I blog because I enjoy blogging. I have been doing it for so long that I can safely assume that I will always blog.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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? -
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Nine Shift
JUNE 26, 2014
Next prediction: the anti-male feminists will extort money from Facebook for another STEM camp type educational program.
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.
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.
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 3, 2008
Jay Cross has an interesting post about using Facebook in the organization, and makes a connection I hadn’t seen (and wish I had :).  He’s citing another post on FaceBook and the Enterprise, where JP Rangaswami posits that Facebook can be used to allow individuals to track what their bosses are doing, as role models. I’m not sure Facebook is the right tool, but a combination of tools might make sense and Facebook’s APIs might make it possible.Â
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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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