"Facebook's 'frictionless' sharing doesn't enhance sharing; it makes sharing meaningless."
The quote above from The end of social totally sums up how I feel about Facebook’s new frictionless sharing: automatically posting read news, watched movies, or listened-to songs.
Facebook’s real value comes from Likes. When a friend shares something, it means they’ve put their seal of…
LOVE this Hello Giggles video!! Makes ME want to go dance at a laundromat. bit.ly/uUJhpn
— Laura Marlow Latka (@LauraMLatka) December 14, 2011
So, I asked Svpply to build me build a recommendation set for a SISTER. Two of their six gift recommendations included ruffled panties and “night walk” platform shoes. Not happening.
“ Design brings content into focus; design makes function visible”
G’s new tool set. (Taken with instagram)
“You can’t ask for a gift. Sometimes we do buy things and there is a gift in there. It’s because we paid a certain amount, but what we got back was larger than what we paid. It’s that gap in between the two that becomes the gift.”
Taken with Instagram at Three West Collective
Thanks, Facebook…
This is an example of Facebook caring more about their own interests—growing the “social graph”— than what is in the best interest of their users.
The tricky part is that this Smart List explanation message only displays when you attempt to add someone to a Smart List from your News Feed, not from elsewhere within Facebook. My apologies to anyone who received a “suggestion” from me to add more info to their profile. The information you share on your profile should be up to you and nobody else.
The last thing I want to do, on any social network, is send my friends/followers/etc. notifications or emails that are not specifically relevant to our communication.
