Lisa Selin Davis did a story about this in TIME, Nov 18, 2010": "The Trouble with Facebook's New 'See Friendship' Feature" My key quote: "We all live in segmented, diversified worlds. We might be juggling girlfriends, jobs or different groups of friends. But [Facebook thinks] we're in one integrated community." http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2032030,00.html#comments In short, despite Facebook's name, they don't really understand the Social Network Revolution. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

If you like this, you might also enjoy Paul Adams' presentation "The Real Life Social Network": http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2 - Alex On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote: > > Lisa Selin Davis did a story about this in TIME, Nov 18, 2010": > > "The Trouble with Facebook's New 'See Friendship' Feature" > > My key quote: "We all live in segmented, diversified worlds. We might be > juggling girlfriends, jobs or different groups of friends. But [Facebook > thinks] we're in one integrated community." > > http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2032030,00.html#comments > > In short, despite Facebook's name, they don't really understand the Social > Network Revolution. > >  Barry Wellman >  _______________________________________________________________________ > >  S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC               NetLab Director >  Department of Sociology                  725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 >  University of Toronto   Toronto Canada M5S 2J4   twitter:barrywellman >  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman             fax:+1-416-978-3963 >  Updating history:      http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php >  _______________________________________________________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- -- // // This email is // [x] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais, ciberflâneur // http://alex.halavais.net //