Hmm, more on Facebook, social objects, personas, and so forth

Stefan’s comment to my post on Facebook ("Facebook is a persistent Julie McCoy") got me thinking:

I regularly explain to people about how users have different personas for different services. Indeed, the way Stefan lists the services (see below), I’d even extend that to say that people have different personas for different social-object-centered services.

That then makes me think that maybe services should focus on a single social-object or maybe compartamentalize the activities around the social-objects they offer.

This then leads me to extend Stefan’s comment to say that Facebook is mixing too many disparate social-objects into one network, losing the focus and definition of that social network, the social-object that defines the network and how people portray themselves (personas).

Link: Lifeblog: Facebook is a persistent Julie McCoy:

Comment by: Stefan Constantinescu

I’m sure you’ve heard the founder of Jaiku give his speech on social objects. With that in context, back "in the day" when Facebook was closed and for college kids only I wold spend hours upon hours upon hours on it. College was the social object. The parties, the clubs, the get togethers, those were the days.

Facebook becoming a platform = let’s try and let developers create their own social objects! That is when it turned to shit because then Facebook lost all meaning.

Flickr = photos, YouTube = video, LinkedIn = professional network, Facebook = college? Not anymore.