Anti-Social Networking

14 responses to “Anti-Social Networking”

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   goofy comparison

   Mar 16, 2006 at 7:11 pm

   It’s A Very Important Concept (Maybe I’ve Misunderstod! You Know Me & Language) Sometimes You Get It wrong WTF

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   angry shock

   Mar 16, 2006 at 7:23 pm

   ‘WTF with brazilians!’ =D

   Welcome isolatr! LOL! WTF! 😛

   imoltr service sounds even better! Muahahahahaaaa!

   -i *know* what you say about linkedin.. actually i never found you there despite ***all*** efforts-

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   boring fact

   Mar 16, 2006 at 7:32 pm

   lol

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4. 

   Today is a good day

   Mar 16, 2006 at 8:14 pm

   Brilliant!!

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   just_a_guy

   Mar 16, 2006 at 8:21 pm

   Funny stuff.

   However, I’ve actually found LinkedIn useful… have found some interesting folks who have helped me diligence deals, and made several customer intros for a portfolio company — to people I haven’t met before but were a degree away at various BigCo’s in the target roles.

   So, I think LinkedIn (which is turning the profitably corner, by the way) is actually a pretty useful for those of us who aren’t as high profile and therefore aren’t bombarded with linkedspam because of our use of it.

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   just_a_guy

   Mar 16, 2006 at 8:25 pm

   Oops I forgot to mention. Anybody remember http://www.heyidiot.com ?? great parody site during Bubble 1.0 (I believe Larry Ellison was behind it?) which pimped a company (heyidiot) that only sold one product (shares of stock in heyidiot.com) and only performed one other activity (buzz management)…

   web.archive.org/web/19990508062811/http://www.heyidiot.com/

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   angry shock

   Mar 16, 2006 at 9:38 pm

   Hi just a guy, only one thing: I don´t think anybody is saying that Linkedin is not useful. I actually have a profile there too and connect with people.

   For some reason there seem to be happening something wrong specifically with Steve´s account which is out of his control… and makes it look as if he doesn´t want to connect, despite being there. At least, this is what I understand of the situation. Isolatr parody fits quite perfectly this odd unwanted networking behaviour. My 2 cents. Steve correct me if I am mistaken.

   I´ll check that site, http://www.heyidiot.com =)

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   jurvetson

   Mar 16, 2006 at 10:27 pm

   just a guy: I agree… I know a number of people who love it… and some who feel pestered.

   Alieness: oh it’s not a bug. I have it set up that way on purpose (the "red list" as they call it). I did not want to sign up for the service and figured there should be a way to politely say no, and just say it once. I was getting several friend link requests per day and did not know who most of the people were. It was starting to feel like viral spam… 😉

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   angry shock

   Mar 16, 2006 at 10:54 pm

   "It was starting to feel like viral spam… ;-)" cuack!

   I could have sweared you were being ironic. ‘Antisocial’ is definitely not your adjective. But for your explanation I easily understand.

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    benjiman

    Mar 17, 2006 at 2:15 am

    Isolatr is hilarious. I find Linkedin to be mildly useful for keeping tabs on some work friends too far afield for regular contact, but I fear that it is creeping toward becoming a Myspace For Work type of thing. The number of random "friend requests" I’ve been getting has been going up. Clearly there are some Linkedin Hos out there…

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    Victor1

    Mar 17, 2006 at 9:16 pm

    Firewalls against the intrusion of technology, now provided within technology…

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    mucus*plug

    Apr 16, 2007 at 4:46 am

    that’s frakin awesome.

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    jurvetson

    Apr 12, 2013 at 4:34 am

    Alas, they have sold the link to some cheesy buyer. I wish I had taken screen shots of this gem…

    Clearly the business model did not support the URL maintenance cost…

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    gumanow

    Apr 12, 2013 at 1:42 pm

    Hello all.

    I started in 2010, a photographic essay on the topic of Anti-Social Networking. I’ve put together a set of photographs which can be found here.http://www.flickr.com/photos/gumanow/sets/72157623564202905/

    I’m a photographer and a technologist, and with my photograph try to say something about the human condition we/I live in. I bring about new networking products and hold patents in networking. I have a deep passion for networking, but also for how we interact with each other.

    This subject came about because I needed to find a topic for a photographic workshop I was doing with Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey. The workshop was called, "The Photographic Essay." I was living in Austin, TX, at the time and the workshop was being giving, coincidentally parallel to SXSW.

    I’m not a huge fan of Austin, TX. It is not a great city for 50 weeks of the year for making photos of people on the streets. In from NYC originally, so Austin is like a dead zone trying to find candid photos to make of people. Austin City Limits is the other weekend when Austin comes alive. OK, there is the Republic of Texas motorcycle rally, the UT football games, Eeyore’s Birthday, Honk, TX,… I think you get the point.

    I typically find topics to shoot from looking at my contact sheets. Yeah, I shoot film. That’s a whole other topic. But I noticed on my contact sheets that everyone was on their phones now. It was bugging me that people were not talking with each other. So during the workshop, and being around SXSW, I found that people were together (close proximity) but in separate worlds. It’s like me saying, "Hey want to hang out and text other people, laugh together about what other people are saying and doing?" It was absurd. Hence, I started to look for this. I can talk more on this if you’d like.

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