{"id":3229,"date":"2008-06-13T08:14:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2008-06-13T08:17:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T15:17:02","slug":"social-media-facebook-identity-and-complex-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3229\/social-media-facebook-identity-and-complex-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media, Facebook, Identity and Complex Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hamlet.jpg\"The advent of social media has changed the way we communicate, do business and relate to the internet. Now everyone has the opportunity and means to create their own hamlet in the kingdom of the web. In the kingdom of the web countries are being formed and the good news is that the New Country is the country\u00a0that should be —\u00a0free, prosperous and open to those with the ambition to create.<\/p>\n

Faceboo<\/a>k has become a\u00a0platform (free country) whereby applications and features can be added outside central control. In my opinion, Facebook has created the standard. The mistake many social media efforts made was creating centrally controlled sites not open to the many possible applications from outside. Facebook is creating something endlessly fascinating, chockful of possibilities for individuals to create their worlds and establish their identities.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Facebook is creating an information stream that will most likely become more and more powerful as time goes on and more applications are added, and as more and more people use it to share their links, offerings, wisdom and news. The great thing about it is that the information is user-generated and not controlled by Facebook’s idea of what is valuable.<\/p>\n

This combination of open-source and open-use whereby the user can create a hamlet of personalized space to create identity and share with friends and associates is incredibly attractive to those who want to establish presence and a base of operation. An operating system where the user has control to develop their own information network is changing the way the internet is used. I have only begun to see the possibilities for my system — not only business-wise as a real estate broker, but as a person utilizing the internet to create social space that gives me identity and enables me to connect to streams of useful and enriching information — and to create complex relationships that form a diverse network.<\/p>\n

Perhaps “complex” is not the best word, but what I mean is the operating system builds a diverse network of relationships that are connected in more and more far-reaching ways — from friends, to consumers, to colleagues, to Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The advent of social media has changed the way we communicate, do business and relate to the internet. Now everyone has the opportunity and means to create their own hamlet in the kingdom of the web. 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