[FRIAM] Facebook. And this it not a troll

[Gary Schiltz]

Facebook. It's not your father's AOL.

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:

> I'm following Melanie Mitchell's SFI complexity mooc.
>   https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/74-introduction-to-
> complexity-spring-2017/segments/5687
>
> In the first video, it was mentioned Facebook is a fascinating example of
> a complex system, and in particular, how information traverses the network.
>
> So here's a group question or two:
> - If you use Facebook, how do you use it and why?
> - And if yes, how is it an information source for you?
>
> My interest is the contrast between Facebook and Twitter. Twitter is "the
> most information per square inch" but Facebook seems to me to be all over
> the map.
>
> A second difference is that there are people for which Facebook *is* The
> Web. By that I mean they enter it and stay there. It is their "email",
> "web", "social", "team (slack)", "tv" (FB recently started streaming
> video), and more. Sorta like the browser is for other ecosystems.
>
> So any interesting observation on The FaceBook Phenomenon?
>
>    -- Owen
>
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