{"id":1914,"date":"2007-12-02T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T09:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2007\/12\/02\/boyds_law_of_so.html"},"modified":"2010-05-14T17:54:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T22:54:06","slug":"boyds_law_of_so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2007\/12\/02\/boyds_law_of_so.html","title":{"rendered":"boyd’s law of social network sites"},"content":{"rendered":"

::giggle:: While I was off the grid, Cory Doctorow created a law of social network sites and named it after me:<\/p>\n

boyd’s law: “Adding more users to a social network [site] increases the probability that it will put you in an awkward social circumstance.”<\/a><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This comes from a brilliant column<\/a> that he wrote for InformationWeek about how the Facebook communication technology (combined with their not-so-open platform strategy) resemble AOL’s old segregation\/segmentation approach to users. (Remember the days when AOL users couldn’t email anyone who didn’t have an AOL account?) Embedded in this discussion is a concern for how social network sites are extremely socially awkward. My favorite quote: “It’s socially awkward to refuse to add someone to your friends list — but removing someone from your friend-list is practically a declaration of war. The least-awkward way to get back to a friends list with nothing but friends on it is to reboot: create a new identity on a new system.”<\/p>\n

Anyhow, I super appreciate the creation of “boyd’s law,” especially because I think that it applies to both social networks and social network sites. (I have to imagine that many folks are having a field day thinking about who all should and shouldn’t be invited to holiday parties right about now.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

::giggle:: While I was off the grid, Cory Doctorow created a law of social network sites and named it after me: boyd’s law: “Adding more users to a social network [site] increases the probability that it will put you in an awkward social circumstance.” This comes from a brilliant column that he wrote for InformationWeek […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[276],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yasns","tag-socialnetworksites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}