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--- On Sun, 7/27/08, WD <mister.wd at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: WD <mister.wd at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] facebook
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 9:13 AM
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 1:23 AM, shag
> <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> > honestly, other than a time sink for when you have
> something you need to do
> > but don't want to do it, what is facebook for? all
> about?
>
> It helps you keep in touch with people you otherwise
> wouldn't. It's
> also fun to find things about your "friends" that
> you otherwise
> wouldn't ask them about (like what your next door
> neighbor's political
> and religious views are).
>
> Just now, for example, I learned that one of my cousins
> moved to
> Indianapolis. I don't know what I'm going to do
> with that
> information, but I was interested to know it. I have rad
> friends in
> Minneapolis who've used Facebook to do organizing (I
> know because I
> periodically get mass Facebook messages from them about
> stuff they're
> planning). Not sure how successful they've been with
> it, though.
>
>
> > man, what a wealth of information these people have
> about what people are
> > supposedly interested in and not. my dog! imagine what
> you can do with all
> > that networking, poking, raising money, sending hugs
> and hamburgers, book
> > listing, music listing ... holeee phuchketty!
> >
> > i need to get a job at a joint like this so i can find
> out how they're data
> > mining. fascinating.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/style/17facebook.html
>
> "But it is Facebook's role as a petri dish for the
> social sciences —
> sociology, psychology and political science — that
> particularly
> excites some scholars, because the site lets them examine
> how people,
> especially young people, are connected to one another,
> something few
> data sets offer, the scholars say.
>
> "Social scientists at Indiana, Northwestern,
> Pennsylvania State,
> Tufts, the University of Texas and other institutions are
> mining
> Facebook to test traditional theories in their fields about
> relationships, identity, self-esteem, popularity,
> collective action,
> race and political engagement."
>
>
> > but other than that, what do all you facebookers
> actually do with it all?
>
> That's about it.
>
> -WD
>
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