Ello is the hot thing right now in social media networking — btw, you can follow Hyperallergic at ello.co/hyperallergic ;) — but it is raising a lot of interesting questions, including What Does Ethical Social Networking Look Like? Quinn Norton writes: The Ello folk have told me they’re not competing with Facebook, but Facebook is competing with them. Facebook is literally competing with everything else you might want to do online, and with all the AFK time they can push into as well. Big social networks seek an impossible level of total user engagement. The more they have you, and the more they have on you, the more they can feed their demons. And they have more demons than their VCs (and later shareholders). Because social networking is so powerful, all social networks attract the attention of governments, many of which are abusive. Eventually all social network companies have to answer to men with guns.
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 20:33:59 +0000
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