4 - I'm one too :-)<div><br><div>And I agree with what Jacqueline has to say, except for her last sentence:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">I don't think it's necessary to have a separate social net for us...</font></span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">which I suspect may be an irony anyway? <br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">"We" (the IGC) ARE a "social net", because "social nets" are not Facebook or MySpace or Second Life but an intercommunication of people which may (or may not) be facilitated by technology.<br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">Deirdre</font></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 September 2011 10:19, David Allen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:David_Allen_AB63@post.harvard.edu">David_Allen_AB63@post.harvard.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Well, between Carlos, Michael Froomkin and myself ... that is three of the 5 or 6 Internet users not on Facebook. And all of us here, in IGC ...<br>
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I echo Michael Froomkin's concern with architecture (I think). Facebook, like AoL of yore, veers toward a closed silo, trying to fill so many needs of the user that there is hardly a need to venture beyond its walled garden. The advent on a Facebook email function settled the matter. How many years did we work, to make proprietary email systems interoperate? And now another one pops up, spawned by Facebook. 'Nuff said.<br>
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Human beings have been social for what? - a hundred thousand years? Yes, we can use digital tools to make that even better. But not at the expense of selling ourselves and our relationships as advertising chattel. Most certainly, not at the expense of being captured in yet another walled garden.<br>
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To that end: As has already been noted, any use of Facebook by IGC for information not distributed to _all_ will exclude those who are not on Facebook. And it seems virtually impossible to use Facebook without some exchanges that unavoidably contain important information, but that are trapped behind its wall. QED.<br>
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David</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On Sep 6, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
It seems by now I am one of those 5-6 Internet users who is *not* on<br>
Facebook, and I will not change my mind.<br>
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frt rgds<br>
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--c.a.<br>
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On 09/06/2011 04:19 AM, Norbert Bollow wrote:<br>
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Izumi AIZU <<a href="mailto:iza@anr.org" target="_blank">iza@anr.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
It just came to my mind to have our Page on Facebook, be it closed or open<br>
or both. What do you think? I think it's worth a try, at least.<br>
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I was thinking to ask all IGC members who is coming to Nairobi<br>
to share their contact/hotel info, and thinking of using some<br>
online facility. Other than mailing list and official website,<br>
we have not much, and then realized how about using Facebook,<br>
(or any other social tool).<br>
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I agree that it would be good to use some kind of online tool for<br>
this purpose, perhaps a wiki?<br>
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I'd suggest to rather avoid Facebook because of the abysmal track<br>
record and attitude regarding privacy matters.<br>
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Greetings,<br>
Norbert<br>
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