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Re: Exit Stage Left, Fade to Yellow and Purple

zephoria — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 02:31:49 -0000

Wow - congrats and welcome!!!

Re: Late to the Party

zephoria — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:54:31 -0000

ROFL. I didn't realize this. Suh-weeeeet!

Re: My Submission to StopTheSpying.org

zephoria — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:03:35 -0000

I forgot to write that i LOVE this photo! And it's a great idea to post it. You have the privilege to do so. Leveraging that is important.

Re: Stats Confirm It: Teens Don’t Tweet

zephoria — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:04:05 -0000

I decided to take a look at all of the teens tweeting in response to the "Teens Don't Tweet" thread that this post prompted. I thought you might enjoy what I found: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/...

Highlight: The most salient visceral reaction that I got when looking at the teens' Twitter streams was that teens on Twitter seemed to fit into three categories: 1) geeky teens, tech teens, fandom teens, machinema teens; 2) teens who are in love with the Jonas Brothers/Miley Cyrus, musicians, or another category of celebs; 3) multi-lingual foreign teens with friends/followers around the world who seemed to participate in lots of online communities.

Re: Social networks as “friend” Nazi (design flaws in Facebook, Jaiku, Twitter)

zephoria — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:37:40 -0000

Scoble - are you aware of my article on friending? You might appreciate it: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_12/boyd/

Re: Danah is confused by Facebook’s fans

zephoria — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:36:58 -0000

Thanks for your response - it's very much appreciated. Your comments on wanting to be visible remind me of a critical tension that is at play in the narratives around social network sites. MySpace, at a core, is all about being AS VISIBLE AS POSSIBLE. This is true technologically and for a huge chunk of its audience. Facebook, on the other hand, prided itself on being the anti-MySpace. Part of how it publicly differentiated itself was through the network-driven privacy structure. This is how they avoided all of the public damage when the Attorneys General and Congress went after MySpace. This is how they earned the trust of parents who heard of horror stories about MySpace. This is how they became an institution for so many of the early adopters. The 30+ crowd does not have such neatly contained networks, especially the kind of 30+ crowd that FB attracted. Their friends are not geographically proximate, they are not connected to one school or company network. Thus, that structure doesn't work for the new audience. And then there are people like you who WANT to be public, want to be visible to everyone and anyone, want to be as searchable as possible. The difference between you and most MySpace folks who are seeking such public attention is that you have it already. (Cuz structurally, you fit far more into MySpace's paradigm than Facebook's...) How is Facebook going to open up to manage what you want and still be protective for its early adopters? Why are their defaults public-centric when the public people know how to make themselves more public but the private-minded folks often don't know how to protect themselves?