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Qie Niangao · 02-26-2011, 09:35 AM

I guess I don't see the Facebook future quite the same as everybody else.

SL has a quite extensive FoaF social graph in the transitive closure over everybody's Friends lists.
FB has currently unrivalled capacity for attaching, augmenting, mining, exposing, and managing social graphs -- to the delight of a half billion or so users.

And nature abhors a vacuum.

Yeah, those Facebook users are "real" people (mostly, kinda), but that doesn't mean the entire social graph is derived from "real" Facebook friends. (It's already demonstrably not; ever gotten a Facebook invitation and noticed who it recommends as friends? Way over the "creepy" threshold.)

I just think the alt account identity problem is the tip of the iceberg, and we're in for a long slog through uncharted territory, with LL's entire business along for the ride. (Which is why I was so bitchy in a comment to Hamlet.)

02-26-2011, 09:35 AM	#4031 (permalink)
Qie Niangao Coin-operated Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,295	I guess I don't see the Facebook future quite the same as everybody else. SL has a quite extensive FoaF social graph in the transitive closure over everybody's Friends lists. FB has currently unrivalled capacity for attaching, augmenting, mining, exposing, and managing social graphs -- to the delight of a half billion or so users. And nature abhors a vacuum. Yeah, those Facebook users are "real" people (mostly, kinda), but that doesn't mean the entire social graph is derived from "real" Facebook friends. (It's already demonstrably not; ever gotten a Facebook invitation and noticed who it recommends as friends? Way over the "creepy" threshold.) I just think the alt account identity problem is the tip of the iceberg, and we're in for a long slog through uncharted territory, with LL's entire business along for the ride. (Which is why I was so bitchy in a comment to Hamlet.)