Facebook Connects 500million People
Facebook has reached its 500 million users and, has thus turned into a huge global digital social state. For the digital literate it has become an infrastructure commodity, almost as much as electricity, gas, water or as Google for search. Facebook is a window to a personalized tribal fire that gathers around it the relevant friends of an interacting individual for sharing moments, ideas, experiences, plans.
How can an individual Facebook user, feel comfortable on this huge platform and still maintain the intimacy, selective privacy and trust within our social spheres that reside in this huge digital society?
Facebook defines itself as a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The turbine that runs this infrastructure is a swarm of personal digital connections, conversations and exchange of information and experiences. In such intricate cobwebs of personalized social spheres, its inherent increasing return cycle will bring about its exponential future growth with exponential privacy, control of personal data, trust and scope of personal interactions related issues and apprehensions, and on the other hand, will make it harder to leave, as it increasingly becomes a commodity magnet.
Does the huge expansion of Facebook mean that people can have more friends on my social graph? Will that be any criterion to anyone’s popularity, value or place? The Dunbar number of 150 as representative of the upper limit number of social relationships that we can manage on an individual level, is also much too high when it comes to meaningful digital sharing within ones social sphere.
The most burning questions are not FaceBook’s dominance in the social networks markets – it’s the place of the individual in such an omnivoring social commodity.
Every personalized Facebook page becomes a personal pillar of individualism, shared through the eyes of the beholder with her Facebook friends. This individualized personal prism creates singular pages in huge global yellow pages like digital address book.
Restricting context to any Facebook interactions, even if they are part of a huge global social infrastructure, does not reflect ones whole context as a person. Time is to call a world that will have a personalized contextual prism – Contextivity.
This article is from www.icentered.com. Author frequently writes about social web and social marketing. To know further about Contextivity, Web 2.0, internet, Social marketing, new business models, digital advertising, and user centered initiatives from Author see – http://icentered.jimdo.com/
How can an individual Facebook user, feel comfortable on this huge platform and still maintain the intimacy, selective privacy and trust within our social spheres that reside in this huge digital society?
Facebook defines itself as a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The turbine that runs this infrastructure is a swarm of personal digital connections, conversations and exchange of information and experiences. In such intricate cobwebs of personalized social spheres, its inherent increasing return cycle will bring about its exponential future growth with exponential privacy, control of personal data, trust and scope of personal interactions related issues and apprehensions, and on the other hand, will make it harder to leave, as it increasingly becomes a commodity magnet.
Does the huge expansion of Facebook mean that people can have more friends on my social graph? Will that be any criterion to anyone’s popularity, value or place? The Dunbar number of 150 as representative of the upper limit number of social relationships that we can manage on an individual level, is also much too high when it comes to meaningful digital sharing within ones social sphere.
The most burning questions are not FaceBook’s dominance in the social networks markets – it’s the place of the individual in such an omnivoring social commodity.
Every personalized Facebook page becomes a personal pillar of individualism, shared through the eyes of the beholder with her Facebook friends. This individualized personal prism creates singular pages in huge global yellow pages like digital address book.
Restricting context to any Facebook interactions, even if they are part of a huge global social infrastructure, does not reflect ones whole context as a person. Time is to call a world that will have a personalized contextual prism – Contextivity.
This article is from www.icentered.com. Author frequently writes about social web and social marketing. To know further about Contextivity, Web 2.0, internet, Social marketing, new business models, digital advertising, and user centered initiatives from Author see – http://icentered.jimdo.com/