Facebook and the herd mentality...

I am on Facebook. Sort of. I deleted my original account and then later created a new one. Which I then stripped down to bare minimum after awhile. Curiosity then made me expand my account for a time until I got bored again and deleted all my groups and fan pages. I also cut my applications back to almost nothing. Currently I don't really have any interest in it anymore. What's the point of it? Am I the only one that wonders about this? Apparently I am after reading this today. 200 million users? That is just insane. What is really crazy is I still cannot find any of the people on there that I have lost touch with over the years which was my original reason for joining. So who is joining? Where do they come from? This is the problem with any free site. Anyone can join and many do just to try and keep from missing out on the next hot thing. I wonder how many people on Facebook actively use the site? Or how many people sign up for an account, play around with it for a time, and then never look at it again unless they get an email notification. How long before the herd moves on to the next "big" social networking site? More importantly where do we want to be on the curve? I just know I don't want to be where the herd is. The view from the cheap seats is not the best place to be...

Superheroes...

Why superheroes always win - being-human - 01 September 2007 - New Scientist  Annotated

Pablo Gleiser studied the social web within the fictional universe of Marvel comics, comprising 6486 characters in 12,942 issues. Taking two characters to be linked if they appeared in the same issue, he found a superficially realistic social network. A small fraction of characters - notably the superheroes themselves - had far more links than most others, acting as key social hubs. "The Marvel universe looks almost like a real social network," says Gleiser



Some people really do have too much time on their hands. That is a lot of issues to go through. It is funny though how comic book writers do make the comics mimic society. At least in the social networking aspects...



A second reason for this post is to try out a new feature I downloaded into Firefox. I recently downloaded diigo and have to say I do like it. I have been using del.icio.us for my bookmarking, but since trying diigo I may not go back. Not only can I bookmark pages I can also highlight sections and add notes. I can then email these annotated pages to others or save them for myself. Very cool...