Onderwerp : [Etc-br] Fwd: [etc-int] Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

oi meninas

não sei se todas entendem inglês mas gostaria de compartilhar esse email da 
lista etc internacional que fala de como grande parte da web 2.0 sofre desses 
três males: suga tempo, conteúdo e privacidade. 

na programação coloquei uma fala sobre isso, serviços como orkut, o 
equivalente europeu o facebook, assim como youtube, myspace.. vou traduzir o 
artigo prá levar prá salvador!

x abraços!



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Subject: [etc-int] Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping
Date: Tuesday 02 October 2007 09:23
From: Anna <anna op mail.nadir.org>
To: etc-int op eclectictechcarnival.org

Hi,

jsut found this on linuxchix and since we have been discussing the pro's
and con's of social networking I wanted to share.

xx
Anna
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http://www.zenofnptech.org/2007/10/social-networks-and-digital-sharecropping.
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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping


I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have
been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general. My
curmugeonly thoughts fall into three basic categories of sucks: time
suck, content suck, privacy suck.

Time suck: Social networks are a time suck. Signing up for new ones,
making profiles, adding friends, adding applications, etc. etc. And, yet
another login and password. At least the content-focused social
networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own
Social Source Commons, there is some there there. I have reached social
network burn-out, and I refuse to join another one, unless there is
something truly compelling, and something I could not accomplish in any
other way.

Content suck: And why do the for-profit social networks exist, when you
really get down to it? Nick Carr, one of my favorite smart dudes, calls
it digital sharecropping:

    What’s being concentrated, in other words, is not content but the
economic value of content. MySpace, Facebook, and many other businesses
have realized that they can give away the tools of production but
maintain ownership over the resulting products. One of the fundamental
economic characteristics of Web 2.0 is the distribution of production
into the hands of the many and the concentration of the economic rewards
into the hands of the few. It’s a sharecropping system, but the
sharecroppers are generally happy because their interest lies in
self-expression or socializing, not in making money, and, besides, the
economic value of each of their individual contributions is trivial.
It’s only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale - on a
web scale - that the business becomes lucrative. To put it a different
way, the sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while
their overseers operate happily in a cash economy. In this view, the
attention economy does not operate separately from the cash economy;
it’s simply a means of creating cheap inputs for the cash economy.

It’s a big chunk to digest, but it makes perfect sense. As I said in a
post a while back, I know that Facebook is getting far more from my time
spent on Facebook than I do. They own my profile, and whatever time I
spend adding content. It’s not really mine, and I don’t like that.

Privacy Suck: Not so long ago, there was a little hiccup in Web 2.0
goodiness. A new social networking site, called “Quetchup” spammed
(without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site.
That’s because a lot of the social networking sites allow you to find
other people on their site by giving them your gmail username and
password, or your email contact list.

There is no question that the social networking space is evolving. But
I’m not going to join another social network unless: 1) It is truly
compelling on a content level, and provides a way to do things with
content that is impossible otherwise, or, 2) It uses OpenID, 3) It has
an open social graph, and 4) I have ownership and control of my own
profile data.

When all of those happen, I’ll be the first to sign up.










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