determinism redux – hola, friendster!
this week just seems to be a week to pick pieces of the blog up and smash them into headines. first, i found a vc headline that resonated with social capital… and now, the subject of todays redux is friendster
the headline is “Attack of the Smartasses” – a wonderfully catchy headline appearing in the sf weekly. and the meta-roj-blog-post of the moment is “on determinism” from a bit over a week ago.
nevermind, for a moment, that it’s a “dot-ster” and we’ve got plenty of those.
this is actually interesting. it seems that management at friendster has come to the awful awakening that the users aren’t using the tools in precisely the manner that they (management) envisioned. even more interesting, because it’s a highly-networked tool, attempts to “enforce” the original intent are being met with [distributed] resistance.
so who will triumph in the ultimate battle of wills? will management beat the smartasses into submission? will the smartasses infiltrate friendster to the point that there’s nothing “real” left? will all the “real” people be chased away? will the system be redesigned to make life hard on smartasses? will anyone care when the dust settles?
tune in next week, or month, or remind me i should follow this up some day, for more exciting episodes of They did WHAT with my baby?
(and, by the way, i’m roj isan at friendster, so stop in and say hi, but only if you’re friendly.