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Business Insider -- INSANE Graphic Shows How Ludicrously Complicated Social Media Marketing Is Now
'This depiction of the digital marketing landscape was shown at a Buddy Media event marking the launch of the social marketing software agency's new suite of measurement tools. You can click to enlarge it, but that won't make it look any simpler.'
socialmedia  data  kipple 
yesterday by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- Are We Addicted to Facebook? It's Complicated.
'“You still feel good when everyone wishes you happy birthday on Facebook even though you know they were prompted to do it.” Dr. Rosen said the average person was not addicted to Facebook. Instead, he characterized the relationship as a compulsion. “Addictions are about finding pleasure,” he said. “Compulsions are born from anxiety, and Facebook is psychologically important. It allows us to project on the world, in a way that we’ve never been able to before, who we are and what we want to say about ourselves.” As a result, he said, Facebook “drives our behavior online.” He added: “We are always checking to see if anyone posted on our wall, if they liked a photo, responded to an update. For those who use it, they are feeling more of a need to look at it and check in and reduce the anxiety of feeling like they are missing out on something.”'
socialmedia  socialnetworking  tethered  FOMO  addiction 
8 days ago by adamcrowe
Nir and Far -- Spotting the Next Facebook: Why Emotions are Big Business
'Facebook succeeded because it built new online habits around frequent offline behaviors. TheFacebook.com, as it was originally known, offered users a digital way to feel connected to others throughout the day and from anywhere they could access the web. The power of this universal human need for social acceptance and connection helps explain how the company grew well beyond college campuses and now touches one in eight people on the planet. Ask a devoted Facebook user why they log-in to the site several times per day and they’ll describe features they love and provide examples of how they use the service. They’ll tell you it’s a great way to share photos or keep up with their friends. But below the surface is the need for emotional gratification. Though we can all shift our emotional states ourselves, it’s not easy. Instead of going through the hard work of consciously changing the way we feel, we use ready-made solutions to do it for us. Facebook, and the companies like it, are the new tools we use to quickly elevate our moods. With Facebook, it’s often loneliness that cues a visit to the site. Twitter is cued when the user fears being out of the loop about what’s happening. Pinterest users feel the urge to capture and collect visual scraps of the web, worried they’ll lose the image lest they pin it. -- The more often an emotion is experienced by the user, the larger the potential market of a product that serves that feeling. -- People don’t realize they use products to satiate feelings so emotional needs must be translated into a concrete story.'
socialmedia  socialnetworking  ambientintimacy  oxytocin  dopamine  addiction  soma 
8 days ago by adamcrowe
The New Inquiry -- Facebook in the Age of Facebook
'Social-media data collection, though, makes the illusion of a unified self hard to sustain. By imposing a single persistent identity, social media inevitably confront people with their inconsistencies. Yet one can’t abstain from Facebook without suffering growing economic consequences. What emerges from this pressure is social media’s tendency to both instantiate and discredit authenticity. They validate the quest for it while dismissing the possibility that you’ll ever arrive at it. The self-directed consumers who shop to express intrinsic inner being is supplanted by the well-connected, autoconfessional self who never pauses in disclosing information and thus runs ahead of any need to self-impose consistency. -- Social media gives us more information about ourselves than we can process, so any schematization of it seems to add to self-knowledge rather than limit it, broadening our identity repertoire. -- The data self coalesces in social media’s mircoaffirmations: we are matched with people who can affirm us, we see a reflection of ourselves in the data that makes us feel recognized, we are told what to want in a way that assures us we will be doing what is right and normal. What threatens the data self is not inauthenticity but lack of access, a disruption of the information flow. If the sharing process is disrupted, we are left with the underlying terror that there might be something crucial about our lives that can’t be expressed in data. The true existential threat is not that our identity will be exposed as fake, but that endless sharing of it will make it feel increasingly inexpressible. Key things might seem to escape our attempts to tell all. ...it becomes impossible to feel that something meaningful could also be unsharable. We are only what we share. Activity only means something to us because we know we can share it.'
theadvertisedlife  quantifiedself  selfservers  socialmedia  facebook  performance  identity  circumscription 
14 days ago by adamcrowe
Klouchebag -- The Standard for Asshattery
'But... but my Klout score is important! No it's not. It's like search engine optimisation, only for yourself. Ignore it. Concentrate on making amazing things, caring about the people around you, and not being a douchebag. If you do that, then you'll soon realise that it doesn't matter one jot what an algorithm thinks of you.'
socialmedia  whuffie  parody  malgorithms  backlash  numbers 
29 days ago by adamcrowe
Wired -- What Your Klout Score Really Means
'Matt Thomson, Klout’s VP of platform, says that a number of major companies—airlines, big-box retailers, hospitality brands—are discussing how best to use Klout scores. Soon, he predicts, people with formidable Klout will board planes earlier, get free access to VIP airport lounges, stay in better hotel rooms, and receive deep discounts from retail stores and flash-sale outlets. “We say to brands that these are the people they should pay attention to most,” Thomson says. “How they want to do it is up to them.” -- When we see ourselves ranked, “we’re trained to want to grow that score.”' -- Have you any wool?
socialmedia  whuffie  status  brandmodels  malgorithms  numbers 
4 weeks ago by adamcrowe
TechCrunch -- Habits Are The New Viral: Why Startups Must Be Behavior Experts
'Today, at the dawn of the Curated Web, companies must build habit creation into their products and business models. Increasingly, companies will become experts at designing user habits. Curated Web companies already rely on these methods. This new breed of company, defined by the ability to help users find only the content they care about, includes such white-hot companies as Pinterest and Tumblr. These companies have habit formation embedded in their DNA. This is because data collection is at the heart of any Curated Web business and to succeed, they must predict what users will think is most personally relevant. Curated Web companies can only improve if users tell their systems what they want to see more of. If users use the service sparingly, it is less valuable than if they use it habitually. The more the user engages with a Curated Web company, the more data the company has to tailor and improve the user’s experience. This self-improving feedback loop has the potential to be more useful – and more addictive — than anything we’ve seen before.'
publishing  socialmedia  addiction 
12 weeks ago by adamcrowe
Canalside View -- Data Without Context, Results Without Consequence, Counting Without Analysis... An Industry Without Conscience?
'... judging by some of our industry’s public discourse, it would seem that large parts of ad- and marketingland are behaving as if they don’t know the difference between effects and effectiveness. Or as if they think they’re in the entertainment business. In which getting people to watch – and maybe ‘engage’ with – our content is the whole end purpose of the enterprise. If there’s one thing digital stuff is good at, it’s leaving behind it a vast trail of data. It gives us more and more things we can easily and immediately count – searches, views, visits, time on page, bounce rate, exit rate, time on site, linking, forwarding, following, referring, clicking, friending, liking, +ing, and so on. All these things are easy to monitor and count... Tens of thousands of this! Hundreds of thousands of that! But counting and analysis are very different things.'
marketing  socialmedia  engagement  ambientimmediacy  thegamingofeverdaylife  numbers  data  kipple 
january 2012 by adamcrowe
Social Media Collective -- In Defense of Friction
'In his paper about online trust, Coye Cheshire points how automated trust systems undermine trust itself by incentivizing cooperation because of the fear of punishment rather than actual trust among people. Cheshire argues that: "strong forms of online security and assurance can supplant, rather than enhance, trust." Leading to what he calls the trust paradox: "assurance structures designed to make interpersonal trust possible in uncertain environments undermine the need for trust in the first place." In many scenarios, automation is quite useful, but with social interactions, removing friction can have a harmful effect on the social bonds established through friction itself. In other cases, as Shauna points out, ”social networking sites are good for relationships so tenuous they couldn’t really bear any friction at all.”'
socialmedia  socialdesign  design  trust  assurance  circumscription  malgorithms  signalvsnoise 
december 2011 by adamcrowe
Pinboard Blog -- The Social Graph is Neither
'Imagine the U.S. Census as conducted by direct marketers – that's the social graph. Social networks exist to sell you crap. The icky feeling you get when your friend starts to talk to you about Amway, or when you spot someone passing out business cards at a birthday party, is the entire driving force behind a site like Facebook. Because their collection methods are kind of primitive, these sites have to coax you into doing as much of your social interaction as possible while logged in, so they can see it. It's as if an ad agency built a nationwide chain of pubs and night clubs in the hopes that people would spend all their time there, rigging the place with microphones and cameras to keep abreast of the latest trends (and staffing it, of course, with that Mormon bartender). We're used to talking about how disturbing this in the context of privacy, but it's worth pointing out how weirdly unsocial it is, too. How are you supposed to feel at home when you know a place is full of one-way mirrors? We have a name for the kind of person who collects a detailed, permanent dossier on everyone they interact with, with the intent of using it to manipulate others for personal advantage – we call that person a sociopath. And both Google and Facebook have gone deep into stalker territory with their attempts to track our every action. Even if you have faith in their good intentions, you feel misgivings about stepping into the elaborate shrine they've built to document your entire online life.'
socialmedia  socialnetworking  socialgraph  panopticon  theadvertisedlife 
november 2011 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Wishful Thinking: Why The Economist Wants Social Media to Replace Blogs
'...the dark-suited gentlemen sitting erectly in your office indicating that as a "patriot" and successful businessperson you ought to be helpful to your country, is politely pressuring you. The young man was on a fast track. He wore a hoodie and kept quiet about his government associations. Eventually, like Bill Gates, he'll "donate" his enormous wealth to social causes. Actually, he'll be instructed to. It'll go to some Foundation the Anglosphere elites control. They don't leave outsize fortunes in private hands if they can help it. This is how the elite operates. They both support and control their enablers. One can see it with Julian Assange, another seeming Intel asset. The Economist is trying to present a kind of elite promotion. It is talking up social 'Net media – which the establishment can control fairly easily from the top – at the expense of myriad bloggers and websites. These are the writers and poets one could compare fairly to pamphleteers of days past. Not Zuckerberg.'
forcedmemes  "transparency"  internet  socialmedia  socialnetworking  facebook  honeypot  precuperation  oligarchy  from delicious
july 2011 by adamcrowe
The Economist -- The end of mass media: Coming full circle
'In January 1776 Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense”, which rallied the colonists against the British crown, was printed in a run of 1,000 copies. One of them reached George Washington, who was so impressed that he made American officers read extracts of Paine’s work to their men. By July 1776 around 250,000 people, nearly half the free population of the colonies, had been exposed to Paine’s ideas. Newspapers at the time had small, local circulations and were a mix of opinionated editorials, contributions from readers and items from other papers; there were no dedicated reporters. All these early media conveyed news, gossip, opinion and ideas within particular social circles or communities, with little distinction between producers and consumers of information. They were social media. In many ways news is going back to its pre-industrial form, but supercharged by the internet. The mass-media era now looks like a relatively brief and anomalous period that is coming to an end.'
retribalization  internet  immunesystem  news  cognitivesurplus  socialmedia  from delicious
july 2011 by adamcrowe
Technosociology -- Why Twitter’s Oral Culture Irritates Bill Keller (and why this is an important issue)
'The oral world is ephemeral, exists only suspended in time, supported primarily through interpersonal connections, survives only on memory, and rather than building final, cumulative works, it is aimed at conversation and remembering knowledge by rendering it memorable, which can often mean snarky, witty, rhythmic and rhyming. (Think poet slams rather than essays). In oral psychodynamics, the conversational, formulaic styling dominates (which aides memory) as well as back-and-forth, redundancy, an emphasis on being less analytic and more aggregative, being more additive rather than developing complex and subordinate clauses (classic example is the Genesis which, like Homer’s Odyssey, is indeed an oral work which was later written down). Oral pschodynamics also tend to be more antogonistic, interpersonal and participatory.'
socialmedia  literaryculturevsoralculture  retribalization  from delicious
june 2011 by adamcrowe
Proximity: Social Media Stage
Guidelines and measures
socialmedia  measurement  engagement 
april 2011 by adamcrowe
Scribd -- Proximity: Social Super Ego
Digital Maslow: '#5 INFLUENCING: The need to be acknowledged and referred to as a unique personality with talent, opinion or expertise. Maximizing your online presence through branding yourself. #4 MONITORING: The need to asses reactions and relevance to improve global online reputation. Assessing influence score, Googling yourself. #3 BROADCASTING: The need to perform to feel accepted and appreciated by online communities. Showing both who we are and what we stand for [using social objects]. #2 CONFIDENTIALITY: The need to feel in control of one’s identity, personal data and information. Managing how one’s image and reputation is displayed by others in pictures, conversations, updates. #1 ACCESSIBILITY: The need to acquire the basic set of skills and markers, indispensable to start existing and interacting in the digital realm. Submitting to networks, picking a screen name and an avatar, learning the language and etiquette of a specific platform.'
socialmedia  performance  brandmodels  identity  reputation  maslow 
april 2011 by adamcrowe
Cloud Girlfriend - The Social Network Girlfriend
'#Step 1: Define your perfect girlfriend. #Step 2: We bring her into existence. #Step 3: Connect and interact with her publicly on your favorite social network #Step 4: Enjoy a public long distance relationship with your perfect girl.'
replicants  idoru  ambientintimacy  socialmedia  socialproof  from delicious
april 2011 by adamcrowe
Caterina.net -- FOMO and Social Media
'“FOMO” stands for “Fear of Missing Out” ... FOMO is a great motivator of human behavior, and I think a crucial key to understanding social software, and why it works the way it does. Many people have studied the game mechanics that keep people collecting things (points, trophies, check-ins, mayorships, kudos). Others have studied how the neurochemistry that keeps us checking Facebook every five minutes is similar to the neurochemistry fueling addiction. Social media has made us even more aware of the things we are missing out on. You’re home alone, but watching your friends status updates tell of a great party happening somewhere. You are aware of more parties than ever before. social software both creates and cures FOMO. If you didn’t know that party was going on, you’d be home contentedly reading your latest New Yorker. But since you do, you hungrily watch each new tweet. It’s an age-old problem, exacerbated by technology. To be always filled with craving and desire...'
technology  socialmedia  behaviours  addiction  intermittentvariablerewards  internet  now  #socialization  ambientimmediacy  FOMO  from delicious
march 2011 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- AlJazeeraEnglish: Empire - Social networks, social revolution
'Youtube, Facebook and Twitter have become the new weapons of mass mobilisation. Are social networks triggering social revolution? And where will the next domino fall?' -- Old media is old.
internet  socialmedia  smartmobs  collectiveintelligence  anonymous  "revolution"  flood  documentaries  from delicious
february 2011 by adamcrowe
The Raw Story -- Revealed: Air Force ordered software to manage army of fake virtual people
'In the continuing saga of data security firm HBGary, a new caveat has come to light: not only did they plot to help destroy secrets outlet WikiLeaks and discredit progressive bloggers, they also crafted detailed proposals for software that manages online "personas," allowing a single human to assume the identities of as many fake people as they'd like. #Manufacturing consent. Though many questions remain about how the military would apply such technology, the reasonable fear should be perfectly clear. "Persona management software" can be used to manipulate public opinion on key information, such as news reports. An unlimited number of virtual "people" could be marshaled by only a few real individuals, empowering them to create the illusion of consensus.'
internet  socialmedia  sentiment  puppetry  minitrue  consensusreality  flood  fake  pseudoworlds  kipple  from delicious
february 2011 by adamcrowe
Advertising Age -- Marketing: A Brand's Best Bet in Social Media Is Randomness
''We've long known that inserting brands into social-media channels requires a conversational touch, but many are surprised by just how conversational. There's increasing evidence that the most-effective kinds of marketing communications on these websites are simple, random, even banal statements or questions driven by the calendar or the whim of a writer that may not have anything to do with the brand in question. "When you have ad agencies or copywriters writing your Facebook copy, it ends up being promotional in nature and if you're not inspiring feedback no one's going to care," said Sarah Hofstetter, senior VP-emerging media and brand strategy at 360i. "You can only talk about your product so much. Balance that with you're not trying to be their best friend, you're trying to achieve some marketing objective."'
socialmedia  improv  copywriting 
february 2011 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Sudan Dictator: I’ll Use Facebook to Crush Opposition!
'Bashir isn’t the only dictator to embrace social media so it doesn’t strangle him. Today, Syria’s Bashir al-Assad reversed a four-year ban on Facebook and YouTube. These might be hollow efforts to show online activists that they’re not fearful of losing power, but they’ll still have the effect of expanding access to technologies that regional reformers are using to stir unrest.' -- There is Like and there is not Unlike.
internet  socialmedia  government  polling  reputation  spam  from delicious
february 2011 by adamcrowe
Meme Hacking -- Douglas Rushkoff: Branding Doesn't Work! So Now What? PivotCon 2010 (Video)
"The human organism is attempting to evolve to the next level of awareness. And brands have no place in that conversation—I'm not saying products don't, services don't—brands don't." -- "Now you're dealing with a multi-dimensional, non-fiction conversation between people who are conversing expressly for the purpose of connecting on higher levels of organization." -- "The real problem [with the idea of 'real' social media conversations] is that there's frightfully very little real going on." -- "The reason they want to have the brand conversation is because that's all they are: brand" -- "Social media exists to help people create and exchange value directly with one another." -- "If the company doesn't have the most qualified, the most enthusiastic, people doing the thing that that company does, then nobody is going to care what that company or anyone in it is saying. And if [companies] do ... all you have to do is let them speak and the marketing part will take care of itself."
criticism  branding  marketing  socialmedia  productnarratives  authenticity  peoplearethekillerapp  DouglasRushkoff  from delicious
february 2011 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- NMA: Are parents' online habits putting kids in peril?
'Online social media is not just for adults anymore. A new study claims that 80% of children in the western world have some form of social media presence by the time they reach age 2.'
surveillance  sousveillance  identity  privacy  theadvertisedlife  socialmedia  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Marginal Utility -- "Engagement Ads" on Facebook
'...giving in to predictive marketing essentially means closing off certain horizons while having them superficially broadened. If you accept that identity has become a matter of consumer practices and what niche we find ourselves in, then you have to accept the conclusion that the data trail we create online can hem us in and trap us, restricting our ability to deniche-ify ourselves. I can imagine a future service that “likes” a bunch of random things and browses through a bunch of random sites on our behalf to throw off the ad targeting. ...our past history becomes inescapable, shaping the contours of the online experience we can have, which more and more shapes the kind of life experience we can have generally, limiting what we know about, what we do and how we are seen and what we accomplish. ..social media works to exploit our identity-making process, to extract productive labor out of our ontological insecurity.. Activism on social media is indistinguishable from self-promotion.'
theadvertisedlife  consumering  precuperation  circumscription  traceeradication  socialmedia 
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Project Syndicate -- Mirror, Mirror, on the Screen
'I suspect that the people who need Digital Mirror the most are the ones who will recognize that need the least. Still, it may help the semi-self-aware to improve their personal relations – or at least to be more aware of the trade-offs they make when they favor one friend or colleague over another. This all reflects a trend toward greater clarity in our relations. Facebook and other social tools operate under the covers: Facebook notices which friends you interact with and whose photos you comment on in order to select the items in your NewsFeed or the ads you see. But Facebook does not show that information to you. Digital Mirror does. Within a few years, this kind of transparency will probably be commonplace, both from Facebook and from ad networks and behavioral targeters trying to derive information about your likely purchases. But right now, only Digital Mirror is one of the few to give you the ability to do the same for yourself.'
socialmedia  sousveillance  surveillance  equiveillance  quantifiedself  etiquette 
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Bajillion Hits -- Why Foursquare Is A Lunch-Eating Paradigm-Shifter
'...simply pressing a “Check In Here” button in exchange for instant point-value validation of your life choices and purchases is so much easier and more rewarding than the similar personal branding services provided by competitors such as Flickr (uploading photos takes forever), Twitter (too wordy), Facebook (say it with me: my mom is not an influencer) or Yelp (get off Yelp, you dork). Plus, Foursquare allows you to passively brag how fabulous you are, thus making the act of doing so far more socially acceptable, which means you don’t have to worry about potential neg-impact on your brand.'
socialmedia  narcissism  lulz 
september 2010 by adamcrowe
The New Yorker -- Twitter, Facebook, and social activism
'As the historian Robert Darnton has written, “The marvels of communication technology in the present have produced a false consciousness about the past—even a sense that communication has no history, or had nothing of importance to consider before the days of television and the Internet.” But there is something else at work here, in the outsized enthusiasm for social media. Fifty years after one of the most extraordinary episodes of social upheaval in American history, we seem to have forgotten what activism is. The platforms of social media are built around weak ties. ...weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism. [Social media activism] doesn’t require that you confront socially entrenched norms and practices. In fact, it’s the kind of commitment that will bring only social acknowledgment and praise. Social networks are effective at increasing participation—by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires. There are many things that networks don’t do well.'
networks  weakties  socialnetworking  socialmedia  activism  slacktivism  consensus  spectacle  narcissism  MalcolmGladwell 
september 2010 by adamcrowe
paidContent -- The Popular New Monetization Model That Requires No Funding Or Advertising
'Prestige as it applies to social gaming is pretty simple: You play a game, advance levels in that game or accumulate goods, and then broadcast the advancement your social network. Prestige turns into real money in any one of several ways. Game players are granted some amount of free virtual currency at the start of play. That currency is used to purchase virtual goods or services that allow the player to advance levels. When the user runs out of currency, he/she can replenish it by paying for more currency with a credit card or PayPal account; by taking a survey; by taking a lead-generation offer like a Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) trial subscription; or by watching videos (gWallet offers this). Other prestige approaches allow the person at the top of a leaderboard (“mayors” in FourSquare, for example) to get discounts at certain real-world establishments. Others don’t monetize prestige, but use it to drive other business goals like time spent on site, which leads to advertising dollars.'
socialmedia  gaming  gaminggraph  engagement  rewards  loyalty  businessmodels 
september 2010 by adamcrowe
Mojo -- Reward your most passionate fans for their loyalty with badges and points using Mojo
'Reward your fans for visiting your web site and sharing your content. Let visitors to your web site and your Twitter followers unlock badges + earn points.' -- Creator describes it as "Foursquare for the web."
socialmedia  loyalty  rewards  badges  retribalization  whuffie  reputation 
august 2010 by adamcrowe
Newsweek -- Take This Blog and Shove It!
'Consumer-review sites like Yelp, Amazon, and Epinions, which use an army of amateur critics to cover products and services, offer elaborate appreciation programs that reward their unpaid people and keep users engaged. Yelp has more than 40 “community managers” scattered around the world, who throw parties for prolific reviewers. After Gawker introduced its Star system, which gave preference to the work of “Starred” commentators, participation on the comment boards rose to a new high. The Huffington Post, which offers its best users digital merit badges and special rights (like the ability to delete other people’s posts), boasts the most active commenters of any news site. Jeff Howe, the author of Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business. Back in 2006, predicted that the winners in the social-media world would be “those that figure out a formula for making their users feel amply compensated.” Prizes are a start. Can cash be far behind?'
socialmedia  crowdsourcing  echochamber  engagement  rewards  badges  thegamingofeverydaylife 
august 2010 by adamcrowe
RWW -- Sean Parker, of Napster & Facebook, Sees a Bright Future for Chatroulette
'"Chatroulette is eliminating all approach anxiety, there's no adverse signaling. You're just thrust into a conversation with people. Right now it's one to one, but you can imagine a one-to-many approach there, too. People who don't get nexted [skipped over to a next conversation] could be helped to draw a bigger audience. If you don't get nexted, you're more likely to be a cute girl, less likely to be a penis. You're more likely to be interesting. It could evolve toward live performance."'
socialmedia  chatroulette  performance  roleplay  storygraph  ractives 
august 2010 by adamcrowe
What The Fuck Is My Social Media Strategy?
'Facilitate audience conversations and drive engagement with social currency' (Link to this "strategy")
socialmedia  marketing  strategy  complianceprofessionals  lulz  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- The Way We Live Now - I Tweet, Therefore I Am
'Among young people especially [Sherry Turkle] found that the self was increasingly becoming externally manufactured rather than internally developed: a series of profiles to be sculptured and refined in response to public opinion. “On Twitter or Facebook you’re trying to express something real about who you are. But because you’re also creating something for others’ consumption, you find yourself imagining and playing to your audience more and more. So those moments in which you’re supposed to be showing your true self become a performance. Your psychology becomes a performance.” Referring to “The Lonely Crowd,” the landmark description of the transformation of the American character from inner- to outer-directed, Turkle added, “Twitter is outer-directedness cubed.” -- I am trying to gain some perspective on the perpetual performer’s self-consciousness. That involves trying to sort out the line between person and persona, the public and private self.' -- I am Jack's Social Object
psychology  socialnetworking  socialmedia  behaviours  identity  performance  masks  selfservers  selfobjects  socialobjects  objects  SherryTurkle  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Wired -- What You Want: Flickr Creator Spins Addictive New Web Service
'Meet Caterina Fake, the creative spark behind Hunch. Her big idea? Develop a web service that knows what you want before you even want it. Get people talking about themselves — their opinions, tastes, beliefs, idiosyncrasies. Then, once they have shared enough information, mine that data for correlations that provide precisely tailored recommendations for each user. It is a quietly radical premise, implying that our tastes are defined not only by what we buy or what we’ve liked in the past but by who we are as people. There’s only so much it can learn from 1 million users. So Hunch is scouring the Web for information, combing the databases of social sites like Facebook and Twitter for anything that’s publicly available — opinions and allegiances, likes and dislikes, followers and friend requests.' -- Why so curious?
socialmedia  recommendations  hunch  surveillance  sousveillance  narcissism  oversharing  hivemind  tethered  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Mindbloom -- Grow the life you want
'For each leaf on your tree, you can choose from Mindbloom’s recommended actions or create your own (like take the stairs or swap out a cup of coffee for water). After adding an action to your leaf, simply schedule the days you intend to do it during the week (Monday through Sunday). As you complete your scheduled actions, you’ll earn seeds. But to keep your leaves healthy and green, you’ll need to do at least 50% (yes, half) of your actions you’d scheduled for each day that week. In Mindbloom, points are called seeds. These seeds are earned when you take those small steps (actions) towards your goals, passions or dreams. Spend those seeds to grow a Life Tree with more branches, leaves and actions... In Mindbloom, not only can you view your own accomplishments via the Journey feature, but you can also view the Journeys of all your friends. -- Advertising and Marketing Partners: ...make goods and services available to users as an opt-in opportunity based on users goals and intentions'
socialmedia  thegamingofeverydaylife  goals  equiveillance  peerpressure  achievements  coaching  tools  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Marginal Utility -- Universal Logins and Social Media
'The portable login is the key; it becomes the repository and access point for online identity. It’s our virtual bar code, communicating our evolving demographic relevance to whomever we reveal it. The ads may enhance our experience of the sort of identity we want to be projecting—they can serve as confirmation for us of who we think we are and thus be quite welcome. They help us consume ourselves. Just as people explicitly buy certain magazines for the ads, properly targeted marketing could function similarly. That is, we wouldn’t want to block online ads, since the ads will have become our most flattering mirror. And further, we won’t necessarily worry about protecting privacy in social media when a wider circulation of this ersatz demographic-construct self is what we actually are after. We won’t want privacy restrictions when what we are hoping for is to be surprised with a better version of ourselves in the ads we see.'
*  advertising  socialmedia  identity  vanity  narcissism  selfservers  consumering  theadvertisedlife 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
Marginal Utility -- Boredom production
'...we are continually driven to produce our own boredom. ...social media lets us function as our own mini ad agencies, working to exhaust the meaning of things more quickly so as to expand the flexibility of our identities, and to make each identity-signifying gesture seem more significant in the moment. ...we want to expend the meaning in a good in a fireworks-like explosion of broadcasted signification; we don’t want our goods to continue to signify who we are after the contrived moment of their presentation to our public. As a result, we purposely make ourselves bored with things, and boredom is a state of open, uncommitted possibility for us, whereas ongoing engagement with some specific set of thing is confining.'
socialmedia  culturalcapital  performance  signalling  identity  taste  boredom  theadvertisedlife 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
Marketing Pilgrim -- Unvarnished Launches: A RipOff Report for Individuals?
Comment: HichamD: "this guy is crazy, I am going to create a profile about the site’s owner and claim how unethical he is LOL" -- Reply Comment: Mike: "His profile already exists, and you are free to put up whatever review you like. But, you will just be hurting your own reputation as a reviewer, when everyone who finds the site useful, trashes your review. Get it?" -- Ponzi
socialmedia  attention  socialcapital  whuffie  ponzi 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Umair Haque -- Unvarnished and the Economics of Antisocial Media
'Unvarnished is a social Ponzi scheme - borrowing reputation from another, to amp up one's own (until one's own gets trashed). Those economics are so 20th century, it hurts. Unvarnished is the endgame of the "social web". I'm going to mark it as the day the "social web" became antisocial. Increasingly, today's "social web" doesn't empower people. It empowers hate, exclusion, and polarization, to put it bluntly. That's as lame and brain-dead as what went on on Wall St a few years back: hurting others to extract value from them. Except, of course, Wall St actually made billions. Social media's as bankrupt financially as it is ethically and economically: a trifecta of lameness.'
criticism  socialmedia  surveillance  anonequiveillance  narcissism  attention  snark  griefing  rating  socialcapital  whuffie  ponzi  internet  immunesystem  autoimmunity  equiveillance 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
The Irish Times -- The revolution was not tweeted
'The Iranian Twitter Revolution meme is thoroughly debunked in Cloud Culture ...a third of Iranians have internet access and the number of Twitter users in the country during last June’s unrest amounted to just 0.082 per cent of the population. “It’s clear that its influence in co-ordinating a serious challenge to a powerfully entrenched regime was wildly overstated,” the report notes. The idea that Iran was undergoing a Twitter Revolution incorrectly characterised and even trivialised what happened last summer, says Parvin Ardalan, a leading Iranian women’s rights activist who attended the protests. “It was much deeper and wider than that. It involved people from every level of society,” she argues, adding that the focus on Twitter, Facebook and other social media helped bolster the Iranian regime’s claims that the protests were part of a western conspiracy to destabilise the country.'
iran  iranelection  activism  socialmedia  twitter  slacktivism  blowback  standalonecomplex 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Stowe Boyd -- Don't Be Afraid Of Foursquare, But We Need Circles Of Trust
'Consider a young woman, Chloe, who has a close set of confidants – say 15 friends, both male and female – to whom she is extremely close. She also is part of a larger scene of 100 people or people that she sees frequently, but knows less well. And she may part of a even larger sphere ... Imagine if her geolocational information was propagated in correspondingly less detail as her Foursquare posts moved outward through these circles of trust. Her inner circle might see exactly where she is -- a certain corner of a certain bar -- and also might receive that information in real-time. Her 100 or so good friends might learn that she is in the Meatpacking district, or Nolita, but specifics would be blurred. So if one of that 100 had been invited to the same party they might be able to infer that Chloe was there, too. But they would have to directly ask her to get confirmation, and she could simply opt not to respond. And that information might be delayed by 15 minutes or 30 minutes, also.'
nearfar  location  foursquare  socialdesign  socialmedia  socialgraph  trust  surveillance  equiveillance  plausibledeniability  privacy  security  publics 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
raxraxrax.com -- EXPOSED: UK PR Agencies fail to understand Foursquare
'Brand hi-jacking: My main concern is that 31 of the Top 50 PR Agencies don’t even have Foursquare on their radar which means that they would be unaware of any negative comments that may have been posted about them. You can imagine the situation where frustrated hacks who have been poorly pitched by a PR exec one too many times could have a bit of fun posting messages on Foursquare at the offending agency’s location. This is worrying only because it shows that if they can’t keep tabs of what damage is potentially being done to their reputation, how can they then safeguard their own clients’ own good standing? -- Am I being harsh? Yes. Quite possibly. The reaction I expect is one that echoes “We can’t have a presence on EVERY new social network that comes along – we simply don’t have the time”. Rubbish! My point is about reputation. ...as communications experts your agency should be ahead of the game and not playing catch-up.'
agencyagency  socialmedia  pr  reputation  plausibledeniability  foursquare  leaky 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Umair Haque -- The Social Media Bubble
'Thin relationships are the illusion of real relationships. Real relationships are patterns of mutual investment. I invest in you, you invest in me. The "relationships" at the heart of the social bubble aren't real because they're not marked by mutual investment. At most, they're marked by a tiny chunk of information or attention here or there. #Trust. If we take social media at face value, the number of friends in the world has gone up a hundredfold. But have we seen an accompanying rise in trust? ...social isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community.' -- Attention economy is a ponzi?
criticism  internet  web  socialmedia  socialnetworking  attention  sharecropping  UmairHaque 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- Human-flesh Search Engines in China
'Searches have been directed against all kinds of people, including cheating spouses, corrupt government officials, amateur pornography makers, Chinese citizens who are perceived as unpatriotic, journalists who urge a moderate stance on Tibet and rich people who try to game the Chinese system. Human-flesh searches highlight what people are willing to fight for: the political issues, polarizing events and contested moral standards that are the fault lines of contemporary China.' -- InternetToughGuy: “Kill him." -- 'The human-flesh search engine can also serve as a safety valve in a society with ever mounting pressures on the government. “You can’t stop the anger, can’t make everyone shut up, can’t stop the Internet, so you try and channel it as best you can. You try and manage it, kind of like a waterworks hydroelectric project,” MacKinnon explained. “It’s a great way to divert the qi, the anger, to places where it’s the least damaging to the central government’s legitimacy.”'
internet  web  socialmedia  crowdsourcing  search  gossip  snitching  stalking  revenge  rage  vigilantism  dumbmobs  meatspace  e-penis  banhammer  violence  china  herd  psychology  retribalization 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Generation Bubble -- Limited Inc.: A Jobless Future and the Narcissist Economy
'Society needs people to elaborate the rituals, to espouse the markers, to prove them in the public process of consumption. As the process accelerates, this becomes more and more difficult and time-consuming to keep up with. Enter Web 2.0, a real-time trend tracker and data harvester, and enter the newly “unemployable” youth leisure class, which may actually be busily working on reproducing the ideology of consumerism online. When a self-conscious group of hyperconsumers take to the internet to chart their retail course among friends and stake out their identity, they are simultaneously working as cultural functionaries, taming the promiscuous field of goods, doing the grunt work in developing the marking services that help the haute-consumer classes perfect its privilege. They secure the appropriate set of meanings to preserve the status of the class to which they have pretensions of belonging.'
socialnetworking  socialmedia  hipsters  trends  curation  culturalcapital  selfservers  narcissism  identity  sharecropping  exploitation  immateriallabour  unemployment  subsistenceclicking 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio Interviews Max Keiser: Greece, Gold and Financial Terrorism
'The economic war being waged against Greece, the EU - and North America!' -- 23:50 On socially-networked, entertainment prediction markets towards virtual currency casino subsistence clicking.
economics  socialmedia  entertainment  predictionmarkets  grinding  subsistenceclicking  StefanMolyneux 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
The Observer -- My bright idea: Jaron Lanier
Lanier: "Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. Initially people aren't sure what the pack is. Somebody tries to ridicule something else, and other people who want to play it safe join in so that they're not the target. Gradually, the pack forms. You can tell it's formed by two things: an internal enemy and an external enemy. The internal enemy is the low person on the totem pole who gets ridiculed. And then there's the external enemy, the "other"." -- Krotoski: "We see this in playgrounds, we see this pack mentality in other, non-web environments. -- Lanier: "That's because it comes from the people, not from the machine."
criticism  internet  web  cyberspsychology  socialsoftware  socialdesign  socialmedia  socialnetworking  groups  behaviours  smartmobs  dumbmobs  commonenemy  status  hierarchy  conformity  consensus  JaronLanier 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Clive Thompson in Praise of Online Obscurity
'...socializing doesn’t scale. Once a group reaches a certain size, each participant starts to feel anonymous again, and the person they’re following — who once seemed proximal, like a friend — now seems larger than life and remote. “They feel they can’t possibly be the person who’s going to make the useful contribution,” Evans says. So the conversation stops. Evans isn’t alone. I’ve heard this story again and again from those who’ve risen into the lower ranks of microfame. At a few hundred or a few thousand followers, they’re having fun — but any bigger and it falls apart. Social media stops being social. It’s no longer a bantering process of thinking and living out loud. It becomes old-fashioned broadcasting. The lesson? There’s value in obscurity. -- Maybe we should be designing tools that reward obscurity — that encourage us to remain in the shadows. Sure, we’d be connected with fewer people, but we’d be communicating with them, and not just talking at them.'
socialnetworking  socialmedia  fame  communities  dunbarsnumber  darknets  obscurity  intimacy  #bandwidth  #socialization 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Raph’s Website -- Gameifying everything
'Some will find this questionable on the grounds of who sets up the incentive structures... Others will see it as a big invasion of privacy... Yet another group will worry about the fact that the incentive structures here are likely to be based on psychological hacks and reinforcement tricks. -- ...we need to be thinking about what our accommodation is with these technologies and approaches. Almost all of this arises simply out of better knowledge of ourselves and our psychology paired with improvements in communications technology. And that is not a new problem—it’s an old one. Spotting [(manipulation)] has become a cottage industry, from Photoshop fails to political fact-checking. And we shouldn’t by any stretch think that games or game tactics are the only place where this stuff will be used or even most impinge upon our lives. ...the concerns that arise from gameifying the world apply in larger measure to non-games.'
thegamingofeverydaylife  gaming  incentives  nudge  ludotopianism  ludocapitalism  socialmedia  socialgraph  surveillance  datamining  sharecropping  grinding  subsistenceclicking  addiction 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Michael Zimmer -- Why Pete Warden Should Not Release Profile Data on 215 Million Facebook Users
'... just because these Facebook users made their profiles publicly available does not mean they are fair game for scraping for research purposes. ...the purpose of this public availability is to help people—humans, not bots—find [people]. ...my profile is only “public” if a human being takes specific and conscious action to find me. -- Warden’s actions, however, violate this implicit understanding for making profiles publicly searchable. Rather than trying to find me, Warden is systematically sought everyone, letting a script to the work of seeking and harvesting my data. There is no genuine desire to find me, to friend me, and so on. He’s just collecting data. The point is whether the 215 million Facebook users who now have some of their information in Warden’s database contemplated such harvesting and aggregating when they built their profile and configured their privacy settings.' -- Asperger's social web?
socialnetworking  socialmedia  facebook  datamining  publics  leaky  ambientexposure  surveillance  ethics 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Rory Sutherland's Blog -- An entirely new role for brands in social media
'...the real promise of collective action will only be realised when there's money involved as well as time. When flashmobs become cashmobs... use the internet to enable large groups of people to get together and collectively microfund public goods. It seems to me that one possible role for brands would be to enable this collective action to take place. They may need to create a few financial mechanisms first - such as a credit card system where you would not be charged for your pledge until the required number of pledges had been reached. But, thanks to work on game theory by the economist Alex Tabarrok, there is another role which brand-owners can play in enabling collective action. That is to play the role of the entrepreneur in a Dominant Assurance Contract. Unless you are a keen anarcho-capitalist, you may not have heard of the Dominant Assurance Contract, but it is a vitally useful concept if brands are to find an effective role as magnets for collective action.'
socialmedia  anarchism  voluntaryism  commons  crowdfunding  pledging  assurance  activism  RorySutherland 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
SFGate.com -- Can your comments affect your credit? Yup.
'In hopes of identifying good credit customers, some financial institutions are tapping into the information you and your friends reveal online. The idea is that the friends you keep and data you disclose may help them make more accurate business decisions. -- ...profiles provide banks with insight into your behavior patterns - what you like and dislike, want and don't want, do well and do poorly. Creditors can see if people in your network have accounts with them, and are free to look at how they are handling those accounts. The presumption is that if those in your network are responsible cardholders, there is a better chance you will be too. So, if a bank is on the fence about whether to extend you credit, you may become eligible if those in your network are good credit customers. -- Having a robust online social network can also expedite loan acceptance. If you're connected to a lot of people who are great credit risks, it can speed you through the process.' -- Brave New World
datamining  surveillance  socialnetworking  socialmedia  socialgraph  socialengineering  class  financialization  quantifiedself  whuffie  risk  credit  bravenewworld 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
danah boyd -- "Do you See What I See?: Visibility of Practices through Social Media"
'The public and networked nature of the Internet creates the potential for visibility. We have the ability to see into the lives of so many people who are different than us. But only when we choose to look. So who is looking? Why are they looking? And in what context are they interpreting what they see? By and large, those who are looking are those who hold power over the person being observed. Parents look. Teachers look. Employers look. Governments look. Corporations look. These people are often looking to judge or manipulate. Given the powerful position they are in, those doing the looking often think that they have the right to look. But do they have the right to judge? The right to manipulate? This, of course, is the essence of conversations about surveillance. And so we argue and argue and argue about the right to privacy in public spaces. -- One of the reasons why people fear the technologies we make are because they make thing visible that we don't like.'
socialnetworking  socialmedia  behaviours  ambientexposure  surveillance  anonequiveillance  voyeurism  transparency  privacy  performance  signalling  civility  DanahBoyd  psychology  equiveillance 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
apophenia -- Facebook's move ain't about changes in privacy norms
'Public-ness has always been a privilege. For a long time, only a few chosen few got to be public figures. Now we've changed the equation and anyone can theoretically be public, can theoretically be seen by millions. So it mustn't be a privilege anymore, eh? Not quite. There are still huge social costs to being public, social costs that geeks in Silicon Valley don't have to account for. Not everyone gets to show up to work whenever they feel like it wearing whatever they'd like and expect a phatty paycheck. Not everyone has the opportunity to be whoever they want in public and demand that everyone else just cope. I know there are lots of folks out there who think that we should force everyone into the public so that we can create a culture where that IS the norm. Not only do I think that this is unreasonable, but I don't think that this is truly what we want. -- It kills me when the bottom line justifies social oppression. Is that really what the social media industry is about?'
socialnetworking  socialmedia  facebook  sharecropping  privacy  DanahBoyd 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Danah Boyd, "Streams of Content, Limited Attention"
On information flow: "You have to help people reach that state of flow where they know they're making sense of the world around them." -- On attention streams: "The key will be to find ways in which content can be surfaced in context regardless of where it resides." -- On monetizing sociality (rent): "We've yet to find the digital equivalent of alcohol for the internet." -- http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/Web2Expo.html
information  news  storygraph  flow  socialmedia  businessmodels  networks  rhizome  curation  context  DanahBoyd 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
Web 2.0 Suicide Machine -- Sign out forever!
'Liberate your newbie friends with a Web2.0 suicide! This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego. The machine is just a metaphor for the website which moddr_ is hosting; the belly of the beast where the web2.0 suicide scripts are maintained. Our service currently runs with Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and LinkedIn! Commit NOW!'
web  socialnetworking  socialmedia  backlash  delete  amputation  tools 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
Marginal Utility -- The social factory
'the self as brand ...concern for our uniqueness, our identity in social contexts, becomes a kind of value-generating capital, or rather a circulating commodity. This plays out in seemingly innocuous ways. It can be a matter of hyping a product free of charge but using it or talking about it. Or this can be a matter of going to parties with co-workers, learning to get along better and therefore increasing the efficiency of processes on the job. Or it is a matter of behaving politely among strangers, extending a system of politeness and trust that can be harvested economically as a reduction in transaction costs. Or it can be a matter of friending one another online and creating a social map whose byways can later be retraced by marketing concerns. Web 2.0 is basically a set of tools for capturing that labor, for which we are not compensated with wages but with a stronger sense of self and a feeling that we are relevant, part of a broader discourse, being recognized for knowing things.'
theadvertisedlife  socialmedia  whuffie  immateriallabour  socialcapital  culturalcapital  identity 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
CNET -- IKEA's brilliant Facebook campaign
'The agency created a Facebook profile for the store manager, Gordon Gustavsson. Over a two-week period, it uploaded images from of IKEA showrooms to his Facebook photo album. Then it put out word that the first person to tag their name to a product in the pictures, won it. Facebook being what it is, word got out and needy, enthusiastic Swedes begged for more pictures so that they could tag themselves to a new sofa, a new bed, or a new vase into which they could stick their plastic flowers or their dead grandparents' ashes. ...thousands of Swedes were spreading pictures of IKEA showrooms all around the personal galaxy known as their profile pages.'
IKEA  socialmedia  advertising  tagging  selfobjects  objects  spread  propagation 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Spew: Are you on the trail of the next unexploited market niche - or just on a nookie hunt? by Neal Stephenson
'...although the Demosphere belongs to General Communications Inc., it is the schmos of the world who make it - every time a schmo surfs to a different channel, the Demosphere notes that he is bored with program A and more interested, at the moment, in program B. When a schmo's paycheck is delivered over the I-way, the number on the bottom line is plotted in his Profile, and if that schmo got it by telecommuting we know about that too - the length of his coffee breaks and the size of his bladder are an open book to us. When a schmo buys something on the I-way it goes into his Profile, and if it happens to be something that he recently saw advertised there, we call that interesting, and when he uses the I-way to phone his friends and family, we Profile Auditors can navigate his social web out to a gazillion fractal iterations, the friends of his friends of his friends of his friends, what they buy and what they watch and if there's a correlation.'
internet  cyberspace  cyberpunk  socialmedia  socialgraph  attention  datamining  realitymining  surveillance  equiveillance  voyeurism  stalking  trendspotting  identitytheft  theadvertisedlife  NealStephenson 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Apophenia -- Sociality Is Learning
'Helping children develop social skills is viewed as a reasonable educational endeavor in elementary school, but by high school, educators switch to more "serious" subjects. Yet, youth aren't done learning about the social world. Conversely, they are more driven to understand people and sociality during their tween and teen years than as small children. -- The practice of hanging out is consistently demonized by educationally-minded folks as a waste of time. Yet, it is in that space where youth learn to navigate social situations, make sense of impression management, and develop the social skills necessary to be productive adults. -- Youth turn to [social media] to reclaim unstructured social encounters, to create a public space that allows them to simply hang out with their friends, peers, and cohort. The flirting, gossiping, and joking around that takes place is not proof that social media is useless, but proof that it's extremely valuable.'
socialnetworking  socialmedia  teens  youth  emotionalintelligence  learning  hierarchy  status  DanahBoyd 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Mashable -- Facebook Slams Twitter: FarmVille is Bigger Than You
'The popular casual game boasts a current 69 million monthly active players, making it the largest Facebook (Facebook) application by a factor of more than two... Their daily active players count is now up to 26.5 million, up from 11 million just three months ago. While Twitter hasn’t itself released official user stats, research puts the figure close to 18 million by the end of the year.'
socialmedia  gaming  virtualworlds  virtualgoods  farmville  facebook  serviceecologies  twitter 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Twitter To Make Money In 2010 With ‘Non-Traditional’ Ads: Biz Stone
How about a 'multi-level', brand-sponsored hashtag, RT pyramid scheme?
socialmedia  twitter  attention  advertising  ponzi 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
Max Keiser & Stacy Herbert -- [1083] The Truth About Markets – 28 November 2009
Max's Casino Gulag / Subsistence Clicking Model: predicts Facebook will become a casino; will give heavy users the ability to buy shares in its IPO whilst regular users play 'social gulag' games for FB's virtual gulag currency, spending it on real world survival items, always dreaming of earning enough to buy shares in 'the house'.
economics  socialmedia  thegamingofeverydaylife  virtualworlds  virtualmoney  facebook  attention  markets  ponzi  whuffie  grinding  subsistenceclicking  casinogulag 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Sorta wish I worked 4 Twitter, Inc.
'Could imagine walking into Twitter every day, being inspired by people who I also inspire, just by existing, being full of life, and wanting to make the world a better place [via social technology]. Should I move to ‘Silicon Valley’ and start a microblogging community/real-time search pyramid scheme?' -- JAJA
HipsterRunoff  twitter  socialmedia  attention  ponzi  lulz  satire 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Bird and Fortune: New Media, Internet, Blogs, Twitter and Fame
"If you wrote in twitter 'I'm ... ' everyone would know and act accordingly."
internet  socialmedia  twitter  attention  narcissism  fame  technoutopianism  lulz 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
danah boyd -- "Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media"
'#2. Stimulation. People consume content that stimulates their mind and senses. That which angers, excites, energizes, entertains, or otherwise creates an emotional response. This is not always the "best" or most informative content, but that which triggers a reaction. #3. Homophily. In a networked world, people connect to people like themselves. Prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, and power are all baked into our networks. In a world of networked media, it's easy to not get access to views from people who think from a different perspective. In an era of networked media, we need to recognize that networks are homophilous and operate accordingly. Technology does not inherently disintegrate social divisions. In fact, more often then not, in reinforces them. Only a small percentage of people are inclined to seek out opinions and ideas from cultures other than their own. These people are and should be highly valued in society...'
*  internet  web  socialmedia  behaviours  attention  continuouspartialattention  synaptics  emotionalism  homophily  groupthink  information  discourse  DanahBoyd  retribalization 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- His Facebook Status Now? ‘Charges Dropped’
'“This is the first case that I’m aware of in which a Facebook update has been used as alibi evidence,” said John Browning, a lawyer and member of the Dallas Bar Association who studies social networking and the law. “We are going to see more of that because of how prevalent social networking has become.” -- Mr. Reuland acknowledges that, in principle, anyone who knew Mr. Bradford’s username and password could have typed the Facebook update, but he regards it as unlikely in this case. “This implies a level of criminal genius that you would not expect from a young boy like this; he is not Dr. Evil,” Mr. Reuland said, adding that the Facebook entry was just “the icing on the cake,” since his client had the other alibis. -- Joseph Pollini said prosecutors should not have been so quick to drop the charges. “...there is a multitude of reasons why someone of that age would have the knowledge to do a crime like that.”' -- Exploitable
socialnetworking  socialmedia  facebook  statusupdates  surveillance  sousveillance  lifecasting  plausibledeniability  alibi  dopplegangers  puppetry  crime  paranoia  1984 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
O'Reilly Radar -- Three Paradoxes of the Internet Age: Part Three
'#The myth of personal empowerment takes root amidst a massive loss of personal control. -- Social technologies are cloaked in a rhetoric of liberation (customers are in control, the internet fosters democracy, social technologies propagate truth etc.) that tend to obscure the fact that never before have we handed so much personal information over in exchange for so little in return. This loss of control over personal information is on a collision course with the law of unintended consequences... Amidst this barrage of good news for how much power we wield in the transaction of commerce one has to wonder if we are giving away something quite precious in the bargain.' -- Give all your information over to Facebook and they'll rent your identity back to you.
internet  web  behaviours  socialmedia  socialnetworking  socialgraph  facebook  datamining  selfservers  identity  rent  #socialization  #complexity  rentseeking 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
O'Reilly Radar -- Three Paradoxes of the Internet Age: Part One
Discuss -- #More access to information doesn’t bring people together, often it isolates us. -- Elizabeth Kolbert: "People’s tendency to become more extreme after speaking with like-minded others has become known as “group polarization,” and it has been documented in dozens of other experiments. In one, feminists who spoke with other feminists became more adamant in their feminism. In a second, opponents of same-sex marriage became even more opposed to the idea, while proponents shifted further in favor. In a third, doves who were grouped with other doves became more dovish still." -- The Internet is becoming a vast petri dish for the group polarization phenomena. As Sunstein puts it “The most striking power provided by emerging technologies,” is the “growing power of consumers to ‘filter’ what they see.” -- Birds of a feather...
psychology  internet  web  socialmedia  consensus  consensusreality  groupthink  socialproof  bias  feedback  #socialization  #specialization  criticism  technoutopianism 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
TechCrunch -- NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth
Rubbernecking 2.0 -- 'Moore’s [tweeted] coverage was quickly picked up by bloggers and mainstream media outlets alike, something that she actively encouraged so she could tell them the truth, rather than the speculative bullshit that was hitting the wires. There was just one problem: Moore’s information was bullshit too. -- ... the ‘real time web’ is turning all of us into inhuman egotists. Her behaviour had nothing to do with getting the word out; it wasn’t about preventing harm to others, but rather a simple case of – “look at me looking at this.” I’m sure she genuinely believed she was helping get the real truth out, and making an actual difference. And that’s precisely the problem: none of us think we’re being selfish or egotistic when we tweet something...' -- On Neda Agha Soltan's death: '...the last thing that terrified girl saw before she closed her eyes for the final time was some guy pointing a cameraphone at her. “Look at me, looking at her, looking back at me.”'
criticism  socialmedia  twitter  behaviours  journalism  voyeurism  attention  narcissism  surveillance  sousveillance  paparazzi  rubbernecking  lifecasting  ambientimmediacy  privacy  dignity  empathy  ethics 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Atomic Tango -- Hypocritical Mass: The Big Lie About Twitter
'...just because one can make money or promote a cause on Twitter doesn’t make it “social”; it makes it just another marketing platform, as the spammers who infest Twitter would readily agree. -- Despite all the bluster, Web 2.0 simply introduced different ways for businesses and customers to interact. Indeed, I would argue that social media has made communicating with corporations more difficult than ever since it’s created “just too much noise to sift through.” ...thanks to social media, corporations have to either hire several (or even hundreds) of customer service/social media reps, or they have to avoid customer contact as much as possible. -- Those most successful at using Twitter to promote themselves have learned that the “social” part is unwieldy. Because it’s impossible to track or respond to the tweets of thousands of people, the emerging “best practice” is to treat Twitter as a traditional mass medium.' -- web2.0 is a ponzi scheme, it is vitally important we realise this...
socialmedia  twitter  attention  ponzi  hype 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Marginal Utility Annex -- Predictive search's black box, horizons of identity in social networks
'Web 2.0 platforms want to tell us what we want before we know we want it... Because these predictive systems aren't openly disclosed, we can't know if the ways in which they prescribe our identity are benign, in our best interests, or if they are producing subjects (and subjectivities) suitable for a system engineered to exploit them. -- "...there is no contradiction anymore between the marketing of user information and the subjective enrichment of users..." -- ...all transactions are deeply personalized and specific, and thus seem identity-validating. ...consumerism is now the inverse, hyperpersonal identity mongering, with the "unique identity" as the perpetual product being sold and resold to the same individual subject. Web 2.0 is letting us sell out before our authentic self even exists. Selling out becomes the prerequisite for having an authentic seeming self, validated by the predictive systems online and fixed in illusory flux of social networks.'
socialnetworking  socialmedia  consumerism  self  selfservers  identity  authenticity  subjectivity  circumscription  blackboxes  #specialization  theadvertisedlife 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
BBC Radio 4 -- Moral Maze (Twitter Mobs Edition)
The perception IS the reality. That's the inherent danger of the immediate consenus-making ability of twitter and other realtime platforms. -- Brendan O'Neill: "Illiberal liberalism" "Emotional incontinence" Righteous indignation/enthusiasm. That's the inherent danger of immediate action/reaction/gratification as opposed to taking the time to think things through – "Boring, hard work," as Nick Cohen puts it. (As a #moralmaze tweeter said, links to in-depth resources provide the best alibi for "shallow" twitterhappy tweetstormers.) Nick Cohen: "There's a lot of utopianism. It's very shallow and very transient. A lot of it is apathetic. It's people affirming themselves." -- RE #moralmaze. It's not surprising to see tweeters so overly keen to defend any and every perceived threat to twitter, though it's not like its going away—calm down. Defending both their newly-felt right to be heard and the social/cultural capital they've built up over the years... TWITTER IS SERIOUS BUSINESS.
internet  web  socialmedia  twitter  behaviours  ambientimmediacy  consensusreality  groupthink  emotionalism  herd  swarming  smartmobs  dumbmobs  activism  indignation  censorship  thoughtcrime  thoughtpolice  hatecrime  protest  apathy  existentialism  feedback  discourse  retribalization 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
The Whuffie Bank - Reputation is Wealth
'The value of your Whuffie is obtained from your online reputation by tracking your interactions with social networks and the feedback from your contacts.' -- Ponzi rises to the top. All gladhands on deck. Cult of reciprocity. Or is that just me being needlessly cynical?
socialnetworking  socialmedia  economics  reputation  whuffie  influence  attention  markets  reciprocity  socialcapital  currency  ponzi  cults 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
The Communications Room -- Social Media Guru
"How will this translate into sales and revenue?" - "Yawn." -- (Awesome commentary on how these 'social media celebrities' use threat of their brand snarky 'tribe' to extort client fees.)
socialmedia  agencyagency  extortion  lulz 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Inside Facebook -- Will Facebook and Twitter Become Communication Tools or Identity Platforms?
More on the fuckbook theory of fb. '...men are more interested in following women who they can find real information about, but women in general share less personal information (like you’d find on their Facebook profile) on Twitter, so as a result men follow women less on Twitter.'
socialnetworking  socialmedia  behaviours  facebook  twitter  identity  lurking  stalking  sex 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Times Online -- Generation reveal: there's nothing they won't post online
'Harry, a diffident 32-year-old charity campaigner, tells me, “The first girl I fell in love with couldn’t keep anything off her profile. It gave me a weird sense of out-of-body experience. Maybe I would have been self-conscious anyway, but I found myself thinking not, ‘What do I want to say to her?’ but ‘How will this play on her page?’ I wasn’t just after her approval, but that of an entire community. -- What we are talking about here is nothing less than a new means of symbolising relationship, and new methods of constructing a romantic identity: the virtual affair, the untagged husband, the status-update-parcelled-out self. As Lucy observes, “I still find myself ‘self-tweeting’. Every little thing that happens has the potential to go public, and it is a game to find a concise, witty way to make it viral." -- "...you realise it’s all just so many pixels on a screen.” Pixels with more permanence than some of the relationships they depict.'
socialnetworking  socialmedia  statusupdates  behaviours  lifecasting  confession  relationships  performance 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Are tweens too socially immature for twitter and/or fame and/or the internet?
'“I stopped living for moments and started living for people.” — Miley Cyrus, 2009 -- I was reading that popular tween sensation Miley Cyrus deactivated her twitter account. It will go down in history as the ‘most tragic’ internet suicide of all time, since she had over 2 million followers. I have read ‘doomsday articles’ that say this is ‘the end of twitter’, since tweeple now have role models who were ’strong enough’ to quit twitter. Instead of mimicking role models who are ‘twitter addicts’, tweens will now be more independent and mimmick role models who are ‘twitter quitters. A lifestream of text filled with 140 character statements just doesn’t give U enough room to BE U. It seems like maybe she turned to ’social media’ to try to replicate human relationships+interactions+socialspheres, but it was just this weird experience of ‘people looking at her.’ -- Just want my life 2 belong 2 me, but also want my life to make other people feel jealous/bored with their own existences.'
*  HipsterRunoff  identity  authenticity  privacy  socialmedia  behaviours  celebrity  fame  ambientintimacy  ambientexposure  lifecasting  twitter  statusupdates  sousveillance  backlash  teens  internet  amputation 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
The Tech Shrink -- Twitter attack: Crisis of disconnectivity
'At the lowest level, there is #Disconnectivity Anxiety, which I define as a persistent and unpleasant condition characterized by worry and unease caused by periods of technological disconnection from others. Some Tweeters may have devolved to the next level related to our overly connected world, #Disconnectivity Panic, which involves a frenzied and unfocused effort to get reconnected. Others may have sunk even lower to #Disconnectivity Catatonia, psychological and physical paralysis due to loss of technological connection. Though a truly scary thought, the endpoint of this continuum may be Disconnectivity Suicide, where life is just not worth living without technological connection. Though I have never heard of it happening, I will predict (sadly) that it will occur in the near future if it hasn't already.'
psychology  socialnetworking  socialmedia  behaviours  twitter  ambientimmediacy  extensionsofman  centralnervoussystem  networks  #bandwidth  amputation 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- Facebook Has a Happiness Index Drawn From Posts
'The idea, one that is generally accepted in social psychology, is that word choice can reveal a person’s mood. This is true in ordinary writing, these experts say, and even more so in writing like Facebook updates or the tweets of Twitter users, which ostensibly are attempts to describe what you are doing right now and how you feel. The Facebook happiness index could be the first step in reorienting the nation’s sense of self-worth. “We have tracked the economic health of the nation for a long time. The reason we track those things is that the government is full of economists, not psychologists. I could imagine it would allow us to look at a group of people, get a sense of what their concerns are, how insecure they feel. It could be an advertiser’s dream. Yes, it is creepy from a government perspective, but it is even creepier from an advertising perspective.”' -- Creepy and extremely dumb. Measure actual behaviours not claims on behaviours. "I'm happy." "I'm sad." You're confused.
socialmedia  statusupdates  facebook  twitter  sentiment  datamining  language  words  realityprogramming  bravenewworld 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
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