Re: [9fans] The Plan 9/"right" way to do Facebook

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Staven <staven@staven.pl> writes:

> It's not worth it.
>
> You'll probably think I'm just being flippant, but I'm not.
>
> It's just not worth it.

That's another interesting & novel way to re-think social networking:
just don't have anything to do with it!  Indeed, that's pretty much the
approach that I've ended up taking, myself.

Do you think it will eventually fizzle-out, kind of like pet rocks and
Usenet newsgroups?  Social networking is a logical extension of the
personal information management (PIM) apps that were so popular in the
late 20th century (and continue to be popular, today, on smartphones).
So, I suspect it probably won't just fizzle-out of its own accord.

Do you think that social networking will be overtaken and replaced by
something else?  Will the replacement be better or worse?  Keeping to
the topic, if social networking's successor could be predicted far
enough in advance, it could be designed and implemented to be
smart-compatible (i.e., with a file system interface) from the get go.
That way, when it finally catches on and becomes popular, it won't pose
a burden to us '9ers.  They say that the best way to predict the future
is to create it, right?  So, perhaps the best way to fix the present is
to create the future.

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