[FRIAM] Facebook. And this it not a troll

Thu May 18 23:50:10 EDT 2017

Owen, 

Define “want”. 

Nick 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

 <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 9:32 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Facebook. And this it not a troll

Boy, good point. AOL attempted to be a walled garden, providing all the (then) internet capabilities. But it collapsed under it's own weight, primarily due to its financial model being, at base, an ISP. 

FB on the other hand "got it", they aren't an ISP (but they are building out networking in the third world so that people can use FB). Instead they are an enabler. I can imagine them discussing "what do people WANT". Well, apparently, they want to be a warm pile of puppies, happily interacting and being silly and just having fun.

   -- Owen

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Gary Schiltz <gary at naturesvisualarts.com <mailto:gary at naturesvisualarts.com> > wrote:

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

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