September 22, 2007 • 5:37 pm 1
I’ve put together some images and diagrams to sum up my experiment on “The Impact of Privacy within a Private Network”. Since I didn’t get a chance to show it in the class, feel free to look through the file.
network effects final [pdf]
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• 5:35 pm 0
As we went through a number of social online websites in the class yesterday(plazes, twitter, meetup, bookcrossing, carpoolconnect, etc.), i had to remember my cynicism on virtual human relationships. i was surprised to realize that there are countless
number of websites of the kind, and was shocked to realize there is even a kind that has absolutely no value of doing except for murmuring to himself allowing(hoping?) others to watch and sympathize with him( i am not talking about blogging with opinions. it is literally a single line of non-sense, not even a journal. ). It is actually very sad that human tries to solve his solitude with random unknown people who would respond with no sincere agreement. i understand each person has different social skills and different needs to feel connected to people, but i can not see the online scribbling act as a positive way to confirm his presence in life. frankly, i used to be pretty addict to a couple of social networking sites for a while, obsessed with the number of visitors everyday, fanatically replying to every single comments from friends. but the more i was wasting my time there, i realized i was losing time which i could have used to make ‘real’ connection to people. that false creation of an image on himself with fabulously photoshoped pics, and savvy comments and cool bgm eventually destroys himself because it doesn’t do any good to his real development of soul and ego but creating an illusion he is just like the one he created in photoshop. it is just like those rockstars living in a fantasy world. like many rockstars fail in getting out of the fantasy with fame and drugs, it is also pretty hard to reject those false yet flattering comments and counts from people on your profile.
maybe it is just one phase that everyone has to go through in his adolescence to fight with his vulnerability. but i can’t stop hating the curse of technology that enables me to be connected to everyone only if i wanted to. when the technology was unavailable, i might have been bored at home alone, but at least i was more active and planned to actually be doing something. sometimes i had to learn a way to enjoy time alone that gave me more time to think and be creative. now with the cellphones, IMs, emails, and this too many social websites, i am in this weird position where i can not ignore them in order to survive with the trend, but feel more deprived of my valued relationships.
or is it just easy to say because i am already so privileged with civilization.?
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• 5:34 pm 0
while i was basically spamming people on flickr to advertise about the group “shoeLoveStory” I created to experiment a network of shoe lovers, i confronted this obstacle:
oops. i guess flickr has this system to block spammers like MYSELF.. hah!
it actually feels weird to be a spammer whom i always detested so much! but interestingly (or fortunately?) enough, i actually got a friendly response from one of the people that i ’spammed’, and she actually even joined my group within 5 minutes i sent the message!
another observation: as i was researching for groups that relates to shoe fetish, i actually ran into a bunch of pictures which were posted by those people who are interested in that sexual association with shoes… hmm.. well, it is not a surprise as it is pretty stereotypical association with shoes, but i wonder if my group “shoeLoveStory” may sound too innocent – almost too boring – for many of those people who like shoes enough to participate in this kind of discussion.
Actually, it always seems to be a problem for me whenever i do an experiment with a use of network, my subject matter turns out to be quite limited and narrow-sighted toward myself, and doesn’t seem to intrigue nor motivate other participants enough to actively participate. maybe i can just blame my limitation of imagination in that sense, or maybe my personal type is just not suitable for this kind of project in a sense that i am not quite a social kind. i tend to and prefer to create close circles around me and try to keep them close rather than expand it broader. as i value ’strong ties’ very much, however, i always look for a way to maintain or even appreciate more of these important relationships around me. and as a consequence, i think i overlook the importance of fun gaming aspect in social network projects since i relied heavily on my trust of sincerity of my close circles. in other words, i assume people would value the relationship as much as i do and would participate simply because they care about the relationship. despite of my failed experience with this assumption and belief, however, i shouldn’t say people care less about the relationship than me (hopefully), but should assume that they just have different way of valuing it. In other words, some people wouldn’t buy the idea of these social games and online networking and stuff, but still value their friendship through different forms of expression such as one sincere phone call once on a holiday…?
this mystery around different types of valuation on relationship has gotten on to me ever since i left my home friends and had to figure out a way to maintain the old values and appreciation i used to share with them when i could actually hang out with them more frequently. sadly, as i’ve been away from home for a while, it seems to be a fact indeed that physical distance does affect somewhat on the mental appreciation just like the saying “out of sight, out of mind”. but with a help of miraculous technology named internet that overcomes the limitation of physical proximity, i believe there got to be a way to help this tragic situation..!
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• 5:34 pm 0
Originally uploaded by uhoh...
Dear Shoe lovers,
i created a group at flickr where people can share their fond memories about their shoes. you can upload pictures of your shoes and tell others the story that relates your loved ones like friends, family, or any other people.
Furthermore, you can invite people who are actually in the story to share the memory, or comment on other people’s stories that remind you of the similar memories.
Feel free to join the group shoeLoveStory and spread the love with your loving shoes
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• 5:33 pm 0
CHARACTERISTICS
Nodes:
6 of my friends whom I occasionally text with + people who text with my friends
Protocols:
I am sending out a message to 6 friends saying,
“Please take a picture of your shoes with your cell phone,
send it to the email address fakejane@gmail.com
Pass this message to the person you texted most recently – if the message bounces back,stop”
Addresses:
Cell phone number
STACK
Application layer:
Cell phone camera and text messaging
Transmission layer:
via cell phone text message
Predictions
Since I am going to choose people in the close circle of friends, I would expect some overlap happen. Since there is a chance that both people might have just texted each other most recently, the shortest route will be one transmission between two nodes. However, once it goes out of the circle, there is a high potential that the route will extend out to random people who don’t have any connection with the main network.
There’s also a possibility that people might not participate in the project. In that case, the transmission simply fails.
My email account will collect images that have been passed around, enabling the observation over the connections and routes through network.
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• 5:26 pm 0
paper1: Compare Two Networks
paper1 [pdf]
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