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22/03/2013 00:00 Indexed under: Forum 4.0
All Networks are in the Formula!
The major problem with social networks is that users all too often forget that their primary purpose is to enable the exchange of personal information (documents, holiday pictures, music, videos, etc.), which is supposed to happen during leisure time.Conceptually speaking, a life project represents the sum of your active time (spent working), and your passive time (spent on leisure activities or resting). As an independent cyber-entrepreneur who already spends most of her working time on the internet, I have to admit that I absolutely don't feel like wasting my free time in there after office hours, all the more so that I am lucky to live in a sunny area!
A glimpse at the plethora of social networks suffices to imagine the cognitive chaos which prevails in them, in terms of redundancy and embezzlement of multiple connections between torn users, since no such network is good enough to meet all needs.
It is precisely this flawed definition of perimeters which provokes bugs of all sorts, benign or malicious…hence the impairment effect which permanently threatens to divert the user from the social network's actual purpose. Isn't the term "social network" pleonastic enough, considering that the social dimension is the quintessence of a network, regardless of its purpose?
"All roads lead to Rome…", I can hear you say in old school propaganda. "All networks are in the formula…" is my answer in good conceptual esperanto!
A glimpse at the plethora of social networks suffices to imagine the cognitive chaos which prevails in them, in terms of redundancy and embezzlement of multiple connections between torn users, since no such network is good enough to meet all needs.
It is precisely this flawed definition of perimeters which provokes bugs of all sorts, benign or malicious…hence the impairment effect which permanently threatens to divert the user from the social network's actual purpose. Isn't the term "social network" pleonastic enough, considering that the social dimension is the quintessence of a network, regardless of its purpose?
"All roads lead to Rome…", I can hear you say in old school propaganda. "All networks are in the formula…" is my answer in good conceptual esperanto!