Like locked cell phones and copy-protected music, Facebook is on the wrong side of the open-network debate. Facebook is a sealed bubble. Facebook users are locked into Facebook, just as iTunes locks music fans to Apple's iPod.
When entering data into Facebook, you're sending it on a one-way trip. Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? Unless they also have an account, they can't see it. Your pictures, videos and everything else is stranded in a w
people all over the world are making a list of 365 people they've met during the course of their lives - people who left an impression and whose name they remember - then they're randomly writing a set number of words about someone on their list. They're
D. Millen, and J. Patterson. CHI Extended Abstracts, page 720-721. ACM, (2003)http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/765891.765950 . isbn 1-58113-637-4 .
http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/chi/chi2003a.html#MillenP03.