People I May Know

Facebook's knew friend recommendation service, dubbed People You May Know, is pretty brilliant and accurate. Every I time I log into the site, I see some faces of people I may know, but don't. Robert Scoble? Nope, never met the dude, though I seem to know a lot of folks who have. Says Owen Thomas:

The New York media is predictably offended by Facebook's "People You May Know" feature. To anyone without Asperger's syndrome, the notion of an algorithm suggesting social relationships is offensive. But to Silicon Valley's elite, this is progress. Forming friendships is inefficient and time-consuming; mapping the social graph is a task well-suited to be offloaded to servers.

The Asperger's syndrome line is crude, but pretty much exactly spot on. Sure, as more of our activity goes online, it only makes that social activity would follow. But the fact that so much human energy is going towards all things social networking is indicative of the fact that the facts behind these sites are a lot of people who, growing up, had a hard time networking socially. Maybe I'm just projecting.

Comments

[Lee D]

Yesterday my Facebook page brought up not only the first "Friend Reccomendation" I had seen but a paid Amazon.com ad for the book "Facebook for Dummies." On the one hand, yay for progress with complex algorythms, but on the other, if this was a targeted ad, I'm vaguely offended.

[dr dre beats headphones]

di cui questo individuo cresciuto, lui o lei è diventata anche questa persona preparati su HIS / la sua terra. Parlare della circostanza inquietante, e mai così è stato Halloween. E 'stato prima il tipo di paesaggio orwelliano si può