Social Primitives for A Brave New Web - Bocoup
“They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks.” - Mark Zuckerberg, Creator of Facebook
Facebook have made good efforts to protect users by explaining the privacy settings, and giving them a range of options to control their data; but in a society that clicks “OK” before it reads the dialogue, the problem is difficult to avoid. The political and social issues that could arise through such electronic ignorance are hard to fathom. In America this issue could lead to losing your job. If you take a sick day and then leave public information online, about how you had a wonderful time at the theme-park with your kids, you put your job on the line. In other countries a public religious or political affiliation could cost you your life.
"Why do Facebook get to own our connections between our family and friends?"
FriendCo-workerFamilyMotherFather
I have been pondering on this for a while, and I have a few ideas of my own. I stopped thinking in terms of services and started thinking in social-primitives, creating “PXML”, a data-scheme to describe what I think makes a person… a <person>.
I decided that two important social-primitives that every person must have are “identity” and “relationship”. I then added various kinds relationship-primitives like <family> and <friends> as child-nodes of the <relationship> node. I also added attributes and nodes for primitives like “privacy”, giving the user control over which parts of their identity are publicly visible. Below is an example of what PXML could look like.
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Social Primitives for A Brave New Web - Bocoup
“They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks.” - Mark Zuckerberg, Creator of Facebook
Facebook have made good efforts to protect users by explaining the privacy settings, and giving them a range of options to control their data; but in a society that clicks “OK” before it reads the dialogue, the problem is difficult to avoid. The political and social issues that could arise through such electronic ignorance are hard to fathom. In America this issue could lead to losing your job. If you take a sick day and then leave public information online, about how you had a wonderful time at the theme-park with your kids, you put your job on the line. In other countries a public religious or political affiliation could cost you your life.
"Why do Facebook get to own our connections b
etween our family and friends?"
FriendCo-workerFamilyMotherFather
I have been pondering on this for a while, and I have a few ideas of my own. I stopped thinking in terms of services and started thinking in social-primitives, creating “PXML”, a data-scheme to describe what I think makes a person… a <person>.
I decided that two important social-primitives that every person must have are “identity” and “relationship”. I then added various kinds relationship-primitives like <family> and <friends> as child-nodes of the <relationship> node. I also added attributes and nodes for primitives like “privacy”, giving the user control over which parts of their identity are publicly visible. Below is an example of what PXML could look like.
in facebook, moz10, mozilla, primatives, social, Social Networking and xml.