Nov
29
“Because their collection methods are kind of primitive, these sites have to coax you into doing as much of your social interaction as possible while logged in, so they can see it. It’s as if an ad agency built a nationwide chain of pubs and night clubs in the hopes that people would spend all their time there, rigging the place with microphones and cameras to keep abreast of the latest trends (and staffing it, of course, with that Mormon bartender).”
A very amusing metaphor from Maciej Ceglowski’s article on the social graph (http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/)
