Comments on: The website that acts like your crazy ex-girlfriend http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2007/11/27/the-website-that-acts-like-your-crazy-ex-girlfriend/ A blog by Joan Morris DiMicco discussing social software and group collaboration Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:11:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Collab-Or-Ate » Blog Archive » What if we didn’t have to confirm our Facebook friends? http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2007/11/27/the-website-that-acts-like-your-crazy-ex-girlfriend/comment-page-1/#comment-13734 Collab-Or-Ate » Blog Archive » What if we didn’t have to confirm our Facebook friends? Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:33:27 +0000 http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2007/11/27/the-website-that-acts-like-your-crazy-ex-girlfriend/#comment-13734 [...] This is a response to Chris Poile’s comment where he points to an interesting article by Cory Doctorow on Facebook friending…. [...] [...] This is a response to Chris Poile’s comment where he points to an interesting article by Cory Doctorow on Facebook friending…. [...]

]]> By: Christopher Poile http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2007/11/27/the-website-that-acts-like-your-crazy-ex-girlfriend/comment-page-1/#comment-13486 Christopher Poile Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:42:07 +0000 http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2007/11/27/the-website-that-acts-like-your-crazy-ex-girlfriend/#comment-13486 Cory Doctorow has a nice article about How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook: http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204203573 I think I agree. The 4th grader mentality of being friended seems a little... immature? Particularly when others can see who is and who isn't your FFF (facebook friend forever). What are the social obligations and expectations placed on you by other people when they asked to be friended? What happens when the person asking to be your FFF is someone who has power over you in the real world? And so on. While not exactly the same as Brookes's Law, at some point more people doesn't make Facebook more useful, and probably less. Cory Doctorow has a nice article about How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook: http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204203573

I think I agree. The 4th grader mentality of being friended seems a little… immature? Particularly when others can see who is and who isn’t your FFF (facebook friend forever). What are the social obligations and expectations placed on you by other people when they asked to be friended? What happens when the person asking to be your FFF is someone who has power over you in the real world? And so on.

While not exactly the same as Brookes’s Law, at some point more people doesn’t make Facebook more useful, and probably less.

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