Comments on: ID, Data movement and the Big SNS http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/03/id-data-movement-and-the-big-sns Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - helping to establish open source infrastructure Fri, 16 May 2008 05:52:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: dr chadblog http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/03/id-data-movement-and-the-big-sns#comment-239608 dr chadblog Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:37:01 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/03/id-data-movement-and-the-big-sns#comment-239608 just to go off on a tangent, this stuff reminds me of a sociologist i read in college called Irving Goffman who did a lot of stuff on "face" in social situations. his theory was that everyone has a number of different faces they present in different social situations, where the same person might play radically different roles. makes sense if you think about it in context of different sns helping people build personas focused on their activities there. the book i read is the Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - thats the Goffman classic I think. so...i guess your whole persona concept is pretty right on. but since i'm still up thinking out loud, the thing that annoys me about sns as they exist now is that they are pre-programmed experiences. basically, if you use say facebook they have some very specific workflows and rules to channel how people interact. but the model is only as good as the person who programmed it's understanding of how people want to interact. why can't the users build their own experiences and their own rules? sns as they exist now are pretty toy-like if you ask me, compared ot how people actually interact with each other face to face. just to go off on a tangent, this stuff reminds me of a sociologist i read in college called Irving Goffman who did a lot of stuff on “face” in social situations. his theory was that everyone has a number of different faces they present in different social situations, where the same person might play radically different roles. makes sense if you think about it in context of different sns helping people build personas focused on their activities there. the book i read is the Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - thats the Goffman classic I think. so…i guess your whole persona concept is pretty right on.

but since i’m still up thinking out loud, the thing that annoys me about sns as they exist now is that they are pre-programmed experiences. basically, if you use say facebook they have some very specific workflows and rules to channel how people interact. but the model is only as good as the person who programmed it’s understanding of how people want to interact. why can’t the users build their own experiences and their own rules? sns as they exist now are pretty toy-like if you ask me, compared ot how people actually interact with each other face to face.

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