http://www.jackofallblogs.com/2007/02/27/social-news-and-politics/ Snarking the Web since 2004. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:30:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.jackofallblogs.com/2007/02/27/social-news-and-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-12213 The DIGG “Friends” System: Does It Work? » Jack Of All Blogs Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:01:31 +0000 http://www.jackofallblogs.com/2007/02/27/social-news-and-politics/#comment-12213 [...] So does the inherent “social”-ness of a system also mean that it is easy to corrupt? I’ve always thought that one of the problems of social media is that it’s social. So whatever problems society has would also reflect in social media, such as social news sites. In real life, friends have preferences and collude (a.k.a. “cooperate” or “conspire”) to achieve whatever goals they have. Same with social news. Friends can work together to arrive at their own headlines. [...] [...] So does the inherent “social”-ness of a system also mean that it is easy to corrupt? I’ve always thought that one of the problems of social media is that it’s social. So whatever problems society has would also reflect in social media, such as social news sites. In real life, friends have preferences and collude (a.k.a. “cooperate” or “conspire”) to achieve whatever goals they have. Same with social news. Friends can work together to arrive at their own headlines. [...]

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