Book - "What you really need to know about the internet" From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg. John Naughton
I thought this was an interesting idea of facebook being the third largest self-governing entity in the world. With a growing user ship of 600million. Another interesting fact was the pure amount of data created each day for site with 200million photographs uploaded. According to this book that it is the biggest image hosting site on the internet with 90billion images. It is interesting that we have never been at a stage in human age when so much information about now and our past has been created and stored.
Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison talk about sites like facebook allowing people to create a public profile within a frame work given to them. This allows it easier to see everyone else profiles and upload into the spaces given.
I feel this is really interesting about when people were allowed to design their profiles on myspace they made a complete mess of it, with distracting and crazed graphics. Maybe the clean cut generation of facebook was a welcome visual break from the busy and alienating designs of myspace. Then everyone was allowed to join myspace but then facebook was only Ivy league schools then Universities across the world then everyone. So facebook communities are based on real networks of people from schools and areas rather than creating an online community from scratch.
"What makes social networks sites unique is not that they allow individuals to meet strangers, but rather that they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks." I think it is interesting that is all about letting others see what you are about. Create an online representation of who you are and who you are friends with.
The final comment is interesting with how he wants to involve everything from indiviuals to brands into the online equation.
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