Comments on: Grizzling about Facebook notes http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2008/11/27/grizzling-about-facebook-notes/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:07:07 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: melgregg http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2008/11/27/grizzling-about-facebook-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-88962 melgregg Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:20:15 +0000 http://homecookedtheory.com/?p=771#comment-88962 I have a draft of the talk now, but it is only handwritten notes. Meaghan will be writing a version for publication in coming months, so I'll keep you updated. Another key point I forgot to mention was how 'grizzling about Facebook' is a constitutive feature of being on Facebook, particularly since the change in layout. This is the added dimension to the argument about how people are making history using this platform, but not in conditions of their making... I have a draft of the talk now, but it is only handwritten notes. Meaghan will be writing a version for publication in coming months, so I’ll keep you updated.

Another key point I forgot to mention was how ‘grizzling about Facebook’ is a constitutive feature of being on Facebook, particularly since the change in layout. This is the added dimension to the argument about how people are making history using this platform, but not in conditions of their making…

]]> By: Graham Preston http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2008/11/27/grizzling-about-facebook-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-88956 Graham Preston Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:30:10 +0000 http://homecookedtheory.com/?p=771#comment-88956 That sounds really interesting. I'd be interested in reading a draft as well. That sounds really interesting. I’d be interested in reading a draft as well.

]]> By: melgregg http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2008/11/27/grizzling-about-facebook-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-88949 melgregg Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:16:05 +0000 http://homecookedtheory.com/?p=771#comment-88949 No recording David (hi! nice to see you here) but I can try to find out if there is a draft to pass on. Meanwhile yes Graham, some of the early take-up commentary focussed on the aesthetics of FB and its appeal for a more professional demographic - Jason called it <a href="http://spooner.beds.ac.uk/nmrg/?p=63" rel="nofollow">the 'digital white flight'</a> to FB if I remember rightly. Something we touched on in discussion after the talk was how FB is also eerily quiet compared to MySpace. It not only lacks music as a unifying experience but also talking smileys, etc. This to me speaks of its take-up by the workplace user who isn't likely to want to disturb cubicle mates...(or to be outed as a regular FB user!) But the backlash against the new FB is partly a case of the platform having lost the ability to interpellate an ideal user - and the shift from a small business model to a multinational experience. I think Meaghan's observations of the HK and Australian modes of engagement help reveal how drearily pragmatic the young college boy entrepreneur's imaginary always was. At least in so far as it shows some of the ways technology is used by non-Americans to express affection on top of - <i>as a crucial further step beyond</i> - the connectivity imperative. Affect trumps content... No recording David (hi! nice to see you here) but I can try to find out if there is a draft to pass on.

Meanwhile yes Graham, some of the early take-up commentary focussed on the aesthetics of FB and its appeal for a more professional demographic – Jason called it the ‘digital white flight’ to FB if I remember rightly.

Something we touched on in discussion after the talk was how FB is also eerily quiet compared to MySpace. It not only lacks music as a unifying experience but also talking smileys, etc. This to me speaks of its take-up by the workplace user who isn’t likely to want to disturb cubicle mates…(or to be outed as a regular FB user!)

But the backlash against the new FB is partly a case of the platform having lost the ability to interpellate an ideal user – and the shift from a small business model to a multinational experience. I think Meaghan’s observations of the HK and Australian modes of engagement help reveal how drearily pragmatic the young college boy entrepreneur’s imaginary always was. At least in so far as it shows some of the ways technology is used by non-Americans to express affection on top of – as a crucial further step beyond – the connectivity imperative. Affect trumps content…

]]> By: Graham Preston http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2008/11/27/grizzling-about-facebook-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-88948 Graham Preston Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:30:33 +0000 http://homecookedtheory.com/?p=771#comment-88948 Hasn't facebook always been about the lack of clutter, the "streamline" design especially compared to myspace? The early days of the 'book were constantly about how you couldn't personalise the background, there were no widgets or very few that could clutter the page, there was no music, etc. The development of applications was seen as a way to attract myspace users, etc. The new facebook then is just a return to the original concept, but now integrated even further. Hasn’t facebook always been about the lack of clutter, the “streamline” design especially compared to myspace? The early days of the ‘book were constantly about how you couldn’t personalise the background, there were no widgets or very few that could clutter the page, there was no music, etc. The development of applications was seen as a way to attract myspace users, etc. The new facebook then is just a return to the original concept, but now integrated even further.

]]> By: david silver http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2008/11/27/grizzling-about-facebook-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-88946 david silver Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:19:42 +0000 http://homecookedtheory.com/?p=771#comment-88946 looks like a fascinating talk - thanks for the notes. any chance it was recorded? looks like a fascinating talk – thanks for the notes.

any chance it was recorded?

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