Jaiku Rules: Facebook Addict Kicks the Zuckerberg Habit
Danah Boyd is the latest to get schooled thanks to Robert Scoble’s Facebook lessons (no video this time though!).
Remember Jeff Pulver’s “who needs LinkedIn, I have Facebook” call to arms”? A “who needs Facebook, we have Jaiku” battle cry now rises from the latest Scoble to the Facebook rescue episode.
Watch out Mark Zuckerberg, your fellow twenty-somethings are feeling mighty comfortable at Jaiku.
How so? Perhaps you are right to stop Robert Scoble in his 5000 friends tracks: Stefan Constantinescu, for one, objects when “dickhead” friend competitions flourish, as he comments at apophenia:
Social networks on the internet always turn out like this. In the beginning you invite your closest friends and in the end you all abandon ship because someone choose to be a dickhead and see if he could get 50 friends, next goal 100, then 1000 and so on. When I read Scoble was having issues with hitting FaceBook’s limit of 5,000 friends I was disgusted.
He took the definition of the word friend, manipulated it into marketing propaganda and expects everyone to accept the same definition of the word. When people start thinking of social networks as advertising platforms, things run a muck.
YES! I underscored earlier today how Twitter is being used as a self-promotional tool, featuring a Scobleizer Tweet as the visual example!
SEE: Twitter: Lifelogging Platform or Self Promotional Tool?
Why does 5000 Facebook friends brand someone a “dickhead”? Constaninescu:
What made MySpace suck and made my generation move to FaceBook was advertising. I’m not talking about popup ads or banner ads, but people who wanted to become your friend just so they could advertise their message to your friends via your “comments page” which is the same thing as “FaceBook’s Wall.”
Scoble, a man who I deeply respect, is using FaceBook incorrectly and spreading a message that everyone who wants to be like him should do the same thing he is doing, becoming a living breathing form of advertisement. The transition of FaceBook from something for you and your friends to a form of advertising is already beginning to happen.
Scoble’s newest Facebook kick may be a “privacy” one, even though he wants Zuckerberg to build an all-knowing, big brother Facebook Hotel!
Also, while the Scobleizer embraces Facebook privacy sensitivity NOW; A mere two weeks ago, in response to my Facebook Anti Social Utility: Real Friends DON’T Share post he proclaimed via video how an all-knowing and all-tracking Facebook is why he has 5000 friends-fans-enemies at Facebook, as I detail in my response post to Scoble: Scoble is Right on Facebook: Zuckerberg Stalks All Your Friends
Want to know more on Facebook non-privacy? Read how Plaxo, Marc Canter Ignore Rights of Stubborn Social Web Silent Majority
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