[Greysard]

FR, as any other blog with registered users, is a social network, simply by definition. However it is not Twitter or FB. It's more like a club where we can come, listen to what others say, perhaps say a few words ourselves, and leave.

Modern social networks, however, are designed to be much more invasive. Twitter gets into your cell phone wherever you are, and you are expected (conditioned) to respond in kind, by sending messages back or forwarding or whatever they do there. The end result is that tens of millions of people are constantly busy sending information-free messages to each other, and paying through the nose to their cellular networks for the privilege. The fast pace of communication there doesn't allow time or space to think and formulate one's message. Twitter as a company doesn't care; the owners are safe in their knowledge that humans like to talk about nothing, and Twitter's servers are there to satisfy that need.

[dalereed]

“FR, as any other blog with registered users”

Ask Jim, this isn’t a blog, he’s said so many times in the past, if it was I would quit, I refuse to read one!

[bvw]

Some parallel here:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-04/most-magnetic-material-ever-created-iron-and-nitrogen-might-overturn-laws-physics