Friday, November 18, 2011

More Resistance to Frictionless Sharing

I posted a few initial, negative responses to frictionless sharing before, and now Molly Wood at CNET shares her thoughts. A lot of what she says is in the same vein as what Farhad Manjoo had to say about this kind of sharing ruining taste, but the article is definitely worth a read. Here's an excerpt: 
Sharing and recommendation shouldn't be passive. It should be conscious, thoughtful, and amusing--we are tickled by a story, picture, or video and we choose to share it, and if a startling number of Internet users also find that thing amusing, we, together, consciously create a tidal wave of meme that elevates that piece of media to viral status. We choose these gems from the noise. Open Graph will fill our feeds with noise, burying the gems.

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