Comments on: Facebook vs. the Attention Economy: Where are the Stars? http://wanderingstan.com/2007-07-20/facebook_vs_the_attention_economy_where_are_the_stars wanderings and wonderings of stan james Fri, 18 May 2012 08:02:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Anonymous http://wanderingstan.com/2007-07-20/facebook_vs_the_attention_economy_where_are_the_stars/comment-page-1#comment-155 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-155 With the ability to profit off of attention you increase the motivation to spam. Myspace had the problem of becoming irrelevant (and it is becoming irrelevant), because of the amount of noise compared to amount of stuff I wanted to see. Internet A-listers complain about friend request spam and application noise, but as a normal user this is not a problem for me at all. App noise has been all but eliminated and travels much better channels now and I get no friend spam because the system isn't wide open and I'm not of some great possible value to bands or porn sites. I don't want it to be fully closed, but semi-closed is good. I like (for the most part) where it is now and in what directions it's moving. The web is open, my blog is open, email is (kind of) open. Facebook doesn't need to be open. However an "introduce" feature where you can introduce 2 friends and a LinkedIn style Answers app would both be really cool. With the ability to profit off of attention you increase the motivation to spam. Myspace had the problem of becoming irrelevant (and it is becoming irrelevant), because of the amount of noise compared to amount of stuff I wanted to see.

Internet A-listers complain about friend request spam and application noise, but as a normal user this is not a problem for me at all. App noise has been all but eliminated and travels much better channels now and I get no friend spam because the system isn’t wide open and I’m not of some great possible value to bands or porn sites.

I don’t want it to be fully closed, but semi-closed is good. I like (for the most part) where it is now and in what directions it’s moving. The web is open, my blog is open, email is (kind of) open. Facebook doesn’t need to be open.

However an “introduce” feature where you can introduce 2 friends and a LinkedIn style Answers app would both be really cool.

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