I think Facebook understood the value of that phrase... making people have control over their networks is basically the equivalent of fencing off your home, but leaving in a gate. Twitter, for instance, is not a gated community but a public square, and it gets the advantages and disadvantages of that; I also use an app called Yammer that hard-codes a restriction that you can only talk to people who have the same work email address as you -- which isn't a fence, it is a wall.
I don't know how it winds up effecting its own community. I've never really subscribed to the "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" idea in brick-and-mortar world either.
I think Facebook understood the value of that phrase... making people have control over their networks is basically the equivalent of fencing off your home, but leaving in a gate. Twitter, for instance, is not a gated community but a public square, and it gets the advantages and disadvantages of that; I also use an app called Yammer that hard-codes a restriction that you can only talk to people who have the same work email address as you -- which isn't a fence, it is a wall.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how it winds up effecting its own community. I've never really subscribed to the "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" idea in brick-and-mortar world either.