"If the “social” web can only rep­re­sent arbi­trary facts about people’s beliefs and inter­ests, then it’s not social."

Just in case there was any question who Facebook's real customers are:

"Let me guess: check the incoming. Check email or traffic stats or messages from your boss. Check the tweets you follow or the FB status of friends.

You've just surrendered not only a block of time but your freshest, best chance to start "something new.

"Every time around the loop, since then, the Internet has served as the antidote to the controls that the tech industry would place on users. Every time, the tech industry has a rationale, with some validity, that wide-open access would be a nightmare. But eventually we overcome their barriers, and another layer comes on. And the upstarts become the installed-base, and they make the same mistakes all over again."

"Let’s acknowledge the irony: the functional difference between “reposting” something versus clicking a Like button is rather minuscule: both actions ultimately rebroadcast the content to others. But the irony here is further amplified because the idea itself being “rebroadcasted” is that Like fails to engage in any literary exchange of substance, feeding a 'narrow range of thought.'"

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Nice post about how @jesselavery thought through a recent Social Media Clense:

Nice post about how @jesselavery thought through a recent Social Media Clense: