Observations:
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Observations:
1. My time poking around facebook has shown me how many people manage to make social media a positive tool and means of staying connected and organized despite the software often working against this.
2. To propose that social media be positive and useful is to insist it’s an effective organization tool. This is why big social media is content with their image as a “vice” — that is where they want to be.
3. The positive uses of social media are basically repressed.
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Observations:
1. My time poking around facebook has shown me how many people manage to make social media a positive tool and means of staying connected and organized despite the software often working against this.
2. To propose that social media be positive and useful is to insist it’s an effective organization tool. This is why big social media is content with their image as a “vice” — that is where they want to be.
3. The positive uses of social media are basically repressed.
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Observations:
1. My time poking around facebook has shown me how many people manage to make social media a positive tool and means of staying connected and organized despite the software often working against this.
2. To propose that social media be positive and useful is to insist it’s an effective organization tool. This is why big social media is content with their image as a “vice” — that is where they want to be.
3. The positive uses of social media are basically repressed.
Social media can be a force for good the fact that so many people see it as the opposite says more about the forces that dominate “the market” and the mistake we make allowing human social networks to be monetized at all.
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Observations:
1. My time poking around facebook has shown me how many people manage to make social media a positive tool and means of staying connected and organized despite the software often working against this.
2. To propose that social media be positive and useful is to insist it’s an effective organization tool. This is why big social media is content with their image as a “vice” — that is where they want to be.
3. The positive uses of social media are basically repressed.
@futurebird Totally agree. Back in 2008 I got into a debate with Clay Shirky at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. At the time I was very optimistic about social networks possibilities to create change -- mybarackobama.com was hugely impactful, as was the One Million Strong for Barack Facebook group. His take was that they were going to shut it down ... and that's exactly what happened.
But the potential's still there! It's just a question of how to manifest it ... https://privacy.thenexus.today/p/62c875f9-db01-4a42-b10b-c9640ff2ba8a/
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Social media can be a force for good the fact that so many people see it as the opposite says more about the forces that dominate “the market” and the mistake we make allowing human social networks to be monetized at all.
I could suggest that there are powerful wealthy people who plot to destroy effective social networks. It can seem that way some of the time. But, this is inventing a romantic opponent, an arch villain with more respect for potential power of "ordinary people" than any of the people who cause these things to happen, mostly without even knowing what they have destroyed.
One advantage we still retain? The people who could stop effective social networks don't really think they are possible.
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I could suggest that there are powerful wealthy people who plot to destroy effective social networks. It can seem that way some of the time. But, this is inventing a romantic opponent, an arch villain with more respect for potential power of "ordinary people" than any of the people who cause these things to happen, mostly without even knowing what they have destroyed.
One advantage we still retain? The people who could stop effective social networks don't really think they are possible.
That creates a gap: one where it's possible to build power.
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That creates a gap: one where it's possible to build power.
*I* still believe in the dream of cyberspace.
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I could suggest that there are powerful wealthy people who plot to destroy effective social networks. It can seem that way some of the time. But, this is inventing a romantic opponent, an arch villain with more respect for potential power of "ordinary people" than any of the people who cause these things to happen, mostly without even knowing what they have destroyed.
One advantage we still retain? The people who could stop effective social networks don't really think they are possible.
@futurebird A thing I have been trying to do is stop thinking about people's behavior in terms of their intentional motivations and more in terms of "what would this person tend to do, if they act according to the motivations in front of them?"
It is maybe not fair, but I am increasingly questioning how much of what ANYONE does is "intentional". They say "a system is what it does". Is a person a system?
