Thursday, February 14, 2008

How Sticky Is Facebook?

I thought it was a very intriguing article about social online sites.
After reading the article coincidently I found more similar articles when
I read the NYTimes over the weekend.


It has raised my skepticism more about creating accounts with not only
social sites but regular email and other logins such as job searching.

Not knowing ones' information will be there in the database after he/she
has
canceled their membership is an uneasy feeling.


The BusinessWeek article, was more on a positive aspect for Turner and

his ideas for the network of sports and he is doing it the right way
by selling ads to his clients who visit the site(s).

In regards to the Alan Turing article, I thought that was the most
interesting reading of the three since I used to study his work
a couple years back in another college. The debate over can machines think
simulated from theoretical thesis to religious ones all formulating back
to Turing's main point. Computers cannot think because we program
them to do what we want them to do. Computers execute our
mission saving time and diminishing the amount of mistakes with
auto spell check or correction.

1 comment:

Linda Weiser Friedman said...

Wow, you really covered a lot of ground.
I also saw the NYT article over the weekend and it seemed that Facebook was responding to the criticism.
BTW, what were you studying when you studied Turing at another college?