{"id":145,"date":"2010-12-04T05:34:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T22:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/04\/why-sergey-brin-should-think-about-prive-1\/"},"modified":"2010-12-06T03:11:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T20:11:54","slug":"why-sergey-brin-should-think-about-prive-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/why-sergey-brin-should-think-about-prive-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Sergey Brin should think about Prive-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, I had a conversation with Ana\u00efs Saint-Jude, a PhD in French Literature<\/a> at Stanford \"picture-13.png\"<\/a>University about the lack of emotional fibre and humanity in Facebook’s commoditized version of connectedness (which I don’t fundamentally agree with).<\/p>\n

When I studied Economics at the University of Melbourne<\/a>, we learned about subsistence economies drove people to live in towns and communities so they could barter as there was a lack of liquidity and divisibility in exchangeable goods and services. Along comes money and currency and solves that problem.<\/p>\n

So Facebook doesn’t make sense as the whole word does not want to be open (need to live so close together like in pre-currency days to trade goods and services). There is no economic requirement to do so.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I was reading an article on Google’s + 1 project<\/a> and I thought about what my friend and I discussedand it occured that from a math perspective (Google is all math – a play on the name http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Googol<\/a>) and so I find it amusing that software guys are creating technologies that go against with the laws of economics.<\/p>\n

So I was thinking of the lack of privacy and the fact that I’m sure one person on every persons Facebook account is not really connected….. hence the math is “minus 1”.<\/p>\n

So whilst the project being pursued by Google and other is more, more, more, social, social, social – I think there are lots of people (or atleast a segment) which are thinking less, less, less, privacy, privacy, privacy – which leads me to the economic rationale that we are in a social bubble and the laws of http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diminishing_returns<\/a> will prevail and people will find that they get less value from adding more Facebook members.<\/p>\n

Hence, I do believe in an economic (and might I say humanities) solution is “prive-1” (“prive” is French for private” less one). That is an economic truism I feel will result from the overproduction of friends on Facebook and feel a business will result from this theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, I had a conversation with Ana\u00efs Saint-Jude, a PhD in French Literature at Stanford University about the lack of emotional fibre and humanity in Facebook’s commoditized version of connectedness (which I don’t fundamentally agree with). When I studied Economics … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}