Right on the heels of yesterday's post on internet rumor and meme, I see this link from two friends on my Facebook feed. OK, I'm skeptical. Surely this is a PR blowout like the would be $35 Indian tablet for school kids.
No, Facebook really is trying to turn Instagram into the greatest repository of stock artwork.
That was at 3 p.m.
Now by 7 p.m. central time, they are backing down.
I say, for now.
A standing line I present to students or the public in talks about social media is this.
So, what is Facebook?
Get lots of different answers before I flash mine on the screen.
"The largest voluntary data mining and information collection system in the history of mankind."
Think about it.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Unfortunately True
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3 comments:
Oh yeah.
Well, that's some good news and some bad news depending on who you are. But just as long as people know that going in...
All social media should have a symbiotic relationship with its users. When that relationship becomes parasitic, we have problems.
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