I don't know who any of these kids are but I want to support them.
"Stories from The Onion as interpreted by Facebook "
attempt to prevent source disclosure in reaction to people seeing facebook source
A newspaper columnist once told of her shock when, having struck up a rapport with a man over dinner, she was told at the end of the meal he had no vacancies for friends. He was operating a "one-in, one-out" policy. Six months later she received a card stating he was now available for friendship.
A quick look at some of the issues raised by computation research using FB or other social networks.
OK. So I'm not the only one that noticed that Google+ is basically just a Diaspora ripoff.
Malcolm Gladwell on social movements and new technology. He talks about McAdams, Granovetter, and a bunch of other sociology hits. I'm not a huge Gladwell fan usually but, in this case, I think the article is pretty keen.
Wow, I don't think I've found myself is such load disagreement with James. I think the FB study was research. I think that the OKCupid case is much less clear.
"The Undersight Board is a generative-AI policy testing system built on LLM-derived personas to allow policy managers, moderation leads, and operations teams to generate, test, and deploy localized community-specific inputs for Trust & Safety policy decision-making. We aim to develop a democratically-trained, model-assisted, and regionally-localized voice of the community system for policy inquiry, development, and evaluation."
