{"id":884,"date":"2007-09-22T09:45:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T15:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=884"},"modified":"2007-09-22T09:45:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T15:45:27","slug":"thank_you_dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Dave Winer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tried to ignore the term “social graph” when it first started popping up a few weeks ago. For one thing, it sounded like some sort of embarrassing disease; for another, the idea of having to figure out some arcane new Web 2.0 term was depressing. But the term – or is it a meme? – kept on proliferating, so last week I tried to figure out what it meant. The definitions I found, explicit or implicit, seemed to indicate that a social graph was all the connections between people in a community or, alternatively, all the connections that one person in a community had with all other people. Why is this a “graph,” I wondered to myself sheepishly, and what’s the difference between a “social graph” and a “social network”? Clearly, I didn’t “get it.” The shame was intense.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Dave Winer came to the rescue, with a post<\/a> titled “How to avoid sounding like a monkey”:<\/p>\n

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before we talked about social graphs we called them social networks, and you know what — they’re exactly the same thing,<\/i> and social network is a much less confusing term, so why don’t we just stick with it? (Answer: we should, imho.) So if you don’t want to sound like an idiot, call a social graph a social network and stand up for your right to understand technology, and make the techies actually do some useful stuff instead of making simple stuff sound complicated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most sensible thing I’ve read in ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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