Dav replying to Ben:
2. the number of people that are really into graphing their network is smaller than you might think.

Yes I disagree. There are many more reasons to get a copy of a friendster network other than making pretty pictures.

And more people want to see those pretty pictures than you might think. I've seen an assortment of things that graph, record, and otherwise give you information on your friends network on Livejournal; almost all of these things are very immediately DoS'd into a fine paste by teeming hordes of LJers who want to see where they stand in their social network. Take a look at the 'lj_nifty' community there, where most of these tools end up being promoted. Hell, I have convenient links to several of them in my LJ userinfo page. So do a lot of people.

Unless you're a completely pathological hermit, you care about the shape of your social networks. And tools like this provide ways to see it in a more concrete form than 'I like Phil, and I like Sue, and I like John, but John really hates Sue...'

Peganthyrus wrote (/m20):
Unless you're a completely pathological hermit, you care about the shape of your social networks.

I guess I'm a completely pathological hermit, then.

In response to Ben Discoe (m14); I am *not* saying that anyone's sensitive personal data could be culled by a spider. The friendster folks did a nice job for the most part of drawing a solid line between presenting public and private data.

However, what they do leave sitting right out there is, in fact, a marketeers treasure tove. How much would any number of companies pay to know what is 'cool' at any given moment using near real-time metrics. If you scrape enough users favorites books, music, movies, etc. take along their sex, dating status, etc. dump all of that into a database and then query the heck out of that database, there you will find cultural metrics that companies would pay top dollar for. These metrics will be unlike any test marketing or product research analyst could determine.

The information that everyone is putting in their profiles is the same information we all hate divulging in questionaires, warranty cards, online surveys, because we know they are used to market products we don't want in a more sophisiticated manner. We know they are getting free data from us that they should be paying for. But with Friendster not being concerned about bots, one spider can gather perhaps the gratest single current data set about people's interests.

So I repeat my concern that by leaving the site open to sipder/robots the Friendster folks are compromising our uniqueness and assiting in the greater commodification of those things that are so special to us they make us feel cool and unlike any other.

B Concerned.

Edited by author 09-25-2003 12:26 PM
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