What makes one zombie attack meaningful and another meaningless?
Posted on November 29, 2007. Filed under: Facebook, Web 2.0, social media, social networking | Tags: Facebook, Gaping Void, MySpace, social convention |
In an earlier post I expressed a concern that Facebook seemed to be getting a bit out of control and wondered what motivated people to continue adding more and more applications to their profiles resulting in a deluge of pokes, superwall/funwall posts, zombie attacks, reviews blah blah raining down on all of us … I [...]
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Posted on October 22, 2007. Filed under: social networking | Tags: Facebook, Leopold Kohr, MySpace, social networking |
As we get wealthier as a society we get more miserable, disconnected and depressed … the economist Leoplod Kohr put it down to ’size’ – ‘… there seems only one cause behind all forms of misery: bigness’ (i.e. as the organisations around us get bigger, we feel smaller, alienated, lose autonomy and control and [...]
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