tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175530035414490569.post6087316101591883210..comments2024-03-22T12:17:50.789+01:00Comments on The corridor of uncertainty: Social soapboxing - the end of Facebook as a meeting place?Alastair Creelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15437257475474703309noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175530035414490569.post-54722087609070916392017-08-29T09:22:31.884+02:002017-08-29T09:22:31.884+02:00Thanks for your comments Sophie. I still think tha...Thanks for your comments Sophie. I still think that many of my Facebook contacts are real and when I meet them at conferences or socially we are already updated on our latest holidays or interests. I feel I know them already and we can start to talk as established friends even if we've only physically met once before. <br />I'm worried that the social side is disappearing and all that is left is a long list of links and ads. I agree that my wish for a new platform is only a dream.Alastair Creelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15437257475474703309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175530035414490569.post-62171722136504832772017-08-29T09:17:04.337+02:002017-08-29T09:17:04.337+02:00First, thank you for that article that awakenes . ...First, thank you for that article that awakenes . Although I share your disappointment about a socializing place as Facebook turning into an advertising machine, I do not share your questioning about the next tool that would take Facebooks’ initial role. Rather, I wonder whether that role is not by itself some utopia, a service for something human are not made for (or at least not yet) which is: too much social connection. When Facebook opened at first, we were still bashful, modest. Hence, we only added the people we actually knew and/or cared about. The quality of the contact could then be maintained by just using another media for the same quality of contact.<br /> However, at least in my experience, little by little random people started to pop up my Facebook 'friend' list (and I only accept people I have actually met!). Basically, this is what often happened to me: I meet a person (of find an ‘old friend’), you become friends on Facebook and that gives us both the illusion of maintaining contact. By consequence, it is this particular illusion that breaks the contact and turns Facebook into a wall of friends and cats (on which I , btw, share your view). So, maybe one solution would be to set some rules for becoming Facebook’ friends (e.g., nb of face to face previous meetings, probability of meeting again, percentage of shared interests, rate of conversations…). One could argue that these criteria would somehow ‘fake’ the human contact but don’t we already have some unspoken rules about what is expected from a person before calling them a friend? …<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06191936925497364401noreply@blogger.com