[governance] Re: IGC on Facebook?

Tue Sep 6 11:39:54 EDT 2011

+ or - I will follow.
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On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 4 - I'm one too :-)
>
> And I agree with what Jacqueline has to say, except for her last sentence:
>
> I don't think it's necessary to have a separate social net for us...
>
> which I suspect may be an irony anyway?
>
> "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.
>
> Deirdre
>
>
> On 6 September 2011 10:19, David Allen <David_Allen_AB63 at post.harvard.edu>wrote:
>
>> 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 ...
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> On Sep 6, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
>>
>>  It seems by now I am one of those 5-6 Internet users who is *not* on
>>> Facebook, and I will not change my mind.
>>>
>>> frt rgds
>>>
>>> --c.a.
>>>
>>> On 09/06/2011 04:19 AM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>>>
>>>> Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It just came to my mind to have our Page on Facebook, be it closed or
>>>>> open
>>>>> or both. What do you think?  I think it's worth a try, at least.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was thinking to ask all IGC members who is coming to Nairobi
>>>>> to share their contact/hotel info, and thinking of using some
>>>>> online facility. Other than mailing list and official website,
>>>>> we have not much, and then realized how about using Facebook,
>>>>> (or any other social tool).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I agree that it would be good to use some kind of online tool for
>>>> this purpose, perhaps a wiki?
>>>>
>>>> I'd suggest to rather avoid Facebook because of the abysmal track
>>>> record and attitude regarding privacy matters.
>>>>
>>>> Greetings,
>>>> Norbert
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