Facebook 2.0
(today’s post: 245 words)
I love statistics.
More importantly, I love statistics that involve me. When I found out about last.fm I thought it was the coolest thing; I continue to obsessively “scrobble” all my music (that is, have the computer make note of every song to which I’ve listened).
Then there was Facebook… a site which is the perfect concept for an online social network; it’s the big meeting ground. Not only does Facebook publish everything I do on the site but it publishes everything you’re doing and tells me about it.
Facebook is also great for applications. I can merge Facebook and, in this example, last.fm. I share my music. You think it looks cool and do the same. Last.fm tracks our similar tastes and we each learn about new bands.
Where am I going with this?
Facebook 2.0 - a site where everything we do is published. And recorded. And tracked.
“Bob listened to Guns n’ Roses at YouTube.com for 5 minutes. He listened to the song ‘Better’.” - Published at 4:55pm.
Key phrases are hyper-linked. Click Gn’R and see my history with the band - when I first listened, when I last listened, how many total listens, etc. Or click YouTube. Or click “Better” to hear the same file to which I listened. Or click 5 minutes to find a list of every activity I’ve performed in my life that took exactly 5 minutes - filtered by various categories.
Cool? Or crazy Big Brother scary? Either way, I think it’s where we’re headed.
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And for the record, today’s published news feed on the aforementioned Facebook 2.0 would focus on:
Tomorrow’s entry would focus on the number of times I’ve shoveled snow. And someone would add a comment of ridicule for how small the number is (it would easily be less than 5 if you discount last winter when I really skewed the average).
If the internet started getting that far up in my business, I do believe I’d have to kill off “Candice K” and pick up a new alias for every site I registered on. Or just give up the internet altogether.