Posts tagged: social networking

thedailywhat:

We Sleep In Public of the Day: The “FBed” is a design concept by Croatian graphic designer Tomislav Zvonarić that allows you to “always to be up to date and close to your online friends even when you sleep.”
The bed comes complete with a built-in Facebook terminal that lets you begin posting status updates as soon as you wake up. Or just before you go to sleep. Or while you’re spending all day in bed because why get up.
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince he was a Facebook-themed bed.”
[behance.]

There was a time when this would have kinda made a little sense to me.
Scary.

thedailywhat:

We Sleep In Public of the Day: The “FBed” is a design concept by Croatian graphic designer Tomislav Zvonarić that allows you to “always to be up to date and close to your online friends even when you sleep.”

The bed comes complete with a built-in Facebook terminal that lets you begin posting status updates as soon as you wake up. Or just before you go to sleep. Or while you’re spending all day in bed because why get up.

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince he was a Facebook-themed bed.”

[behance.]

There was a time when this would have kinda made a little sense to me.

Scary.

Social Networking Value: Probably the first “social networker” (or at least the first one I encountered back in 1997 or so) is Chris Pirillo. My recent decision to buy Empire Avenue “stock” in Chris is evidence of how powerful what he has built online over the years has become. Because he also invested in Shawnblog, the masses who follow Chris (everywhere) saw this activity and, probably without and thought (since this happened in a matter of minutes), decided to also buy me.
Since it’s free, educational and fun, I think you should too!
http://t.co/FqaXQAB

Social Networking Value: Probably the first “social networker” (or at least the first one I encountered back in 1997 or so) is Chris Pirillo. My recent decision to buy Empire Avenue “stock” in Chris is evidence of how powerful what he has built online over the years has become. Because he also invested in Shawnblog, the masses who follow Chris (everywhere) saw this activity and, probably without and thought (since this happened in a matter of minutes), decided to also buy me.

Since it’s free, educational and fun, I think you should too!

http://t.co/FqaXQAB

More commercially embraced social networking here… I took a a picture and wrote about my experience at Cherry on Top on Yelp. Only a two days later, they found me on Twitter.

More commercially embraced social networking here… I took a a picture and wrote about my experience at Cherry on Top on Yelp. Only a two days later, they found me on Twitter.

Now this is social networking in action right here…
I take a picture of a product and send it from my camera phone to Flickr, adding it to shawnblog (via Tumblr) later that night. A few reblogs and a week later and Batter Blaster adds me on Twitter.
I’m feeling so much more social now.

Now this is social networking in action right here…

I take a picture of a product and send it from my camera phone to Flickr, adding it to shawnblog (via Tumblr) later that night. A few reblogs and a week later and Batter Blaster adds me on Twitter.

I’m feeling so much more social now.

I’m thisclose to deleting my MySpace, but I’m scared I’ll regret it.

mzchristine:

frangry:

Every day, I log in, and every single day I think to myself: this is SO boring.

I seriously feel the same way. I used to like it so I can stay in touch with my family from far and old friends… Problem is we don’t even write to each other. MySpace is Hi5 status now (meaning just there and never used).

I haven’t logged into MySpace in many months and constantly wonder why I haven’t deleted the account. I do have a link to shawnblog.com there and get very sporadic traffic from that profile. Almost all my MySpace friends are on Facebook. I have no use for MySpace at all. What’s my password again?

;-)

Are you my friend? Yes or no?” This question, while fundamentally odd, is a key component of social network sites. Participants must select who on the system they deem to be ‘Friends.’ Their choice is publicly displayed for all to see and becomes the backbone for networked participation. By examining what different participants groups do on social network sites, this paper investigates what Friendship means and how Friendship affects the culture of the sites. I will argue that Friendship helps people write community into being in social network sites. Through these imagined egocentric communities, participants are able to express who they are and locate themselves culturally. In turn, this provides individuals with a contextual frame through which they can properly socialize with other participants. Friending is deeply affected by both social processes and technological affordances. I will argue that the established Friending norms evolved out of a need to resolve the social tensions that emerged due to technological limitations. At the same time, I will argue that Friending supports pre-existing social norms yet because the architecture of social network sites is fundamentally different than the architecture of unmediated social spaces, these sites introduce an environment that is quite unlike that with which we are accustomed.
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