On 03/03/2013 05:22 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > Read a summary of findings at: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/03/google-facebook-nothing-lasts-for-ever > *** Thank you for posting that Melvin. I've read that article from [1] and it mentions cascading defections from the network: if many users have few friends, say one or two, a friend quitting the network gives an incentive to her friend left with only one friend to quit as well, triggering a chain reaction. When the cost of leaving the network becomes less than the benefit of staying, people will rather quit.
Recently, Douglas Rushkoff wrote "Why I'm quitting Facebook" [2], explaining that the new "related contents" that Facebook rolled out, that are actually sponsored links, impersonate users at their own detriment as regard to their reputation vis a vis their friends. He finds that unacceptable, and resigned for that reason. A friend of mine, who is using Facebook, translated the article into her language and distributed it to her 400 contacts on Facebook. As she knows having it on her wall will not reach out to her 400 contacts (they will probably miss it), she started sending messages to all of them in bulk. It seems that Facebook makes it easy to share what they want you to share to all your contacts, but doesn't provide a feature to broadcast messages to all of them at once. So she proceeded to message them by chunks of about 30 people. Soon enough, she started receiving messages from the system telling her that it was considered a spamming behavior and that her account would be suspended if she persisted. All that she wanted to do is tell her contacts that she's closing her Facebook account, and that they can keep contacting her by email. == hk [1] http://www.technologyreview.com/view/511846/an-autopsy-of-a-dead-social-network/ [2] http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/25/opinion/rushkoff-why-im-quitting-facebook/index.html
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