Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah to Donal:

> > Social networking is web or end system Multicast only with arbitrary
> > and sticky groups/topics.
>
> Exactly.  And it isn't new.  It's been around since mailing lists and Usenet.
>
> The thing is, that every Twittler or LinkeDin, or FaceOffBook doesn't really help 
> with communication, it fragments it.  ...

Some more than others and Twitter doubly so.

It doesn't surprise me at all that these lesser and lesser forms of 
"communication" have become more and more popular as the art of inline 
editing of electronic responses and increased use of that abomination, 
top-posting, has become the de_fault_...

> ...  Now there is a new site to register with, and 
> a new technology to learn, and, in the meantime, our field, and the exploits and 
> vulnerabilities we need to keep up with, are racing by faster than we can cope with 
> ...

Indeed.

The popularity of these sites du jour just spells "job security" to me 
though...


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald


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