{"id":1791,"date":"2007-10-03T10:43:04","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T10:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/03\/social-networks-what-are-they\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T10:43:04","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T10:43:04","slug":"social-networks-what-are-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/03\/social-networks-what-are-they\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Networks: What Are They Good For?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, in a fit of procrastinatory behavior, I’ve spent a bunch of time over the last few days playing with Facebook<\/a>. I have to say, I can understand how this would get to be addictive– I’m inordinately amused by the fact that I can go to a web page and get a little message telling me that a division chief at NIST has removed a commercial jingle from his list of favorite music. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with that information, but it amuses me.<\/p>\n

I’m still sort of wondering whether there’s a point to this stuff beyond more efficient procrastination, though. I’ve got access to this… thing. Is there something I ought to be doing with it that would help me in some way? Boost the readership of the blog? Promote the as-yet-nonexistent book? (I did finish a draft of chapter 3 yesterday, and the irritating problems with chapter 2 appear to be mostly fixed, so it’s onward and upward…)<\/p>\n

Or is the whole point just to accumulate “friends” and fiddle around sending them silly status updates? Because, you know, I’m okay with that, I’d just hate to think I was missing out on a real opportunity, here…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, in a fit of procrastinatory behavior, I’ve spent a bunch of time over the last few days playing with Facebook. I have to say, I can understand how this would get to be addictive– I’m inordinately amused by the fact that I can go to a web page and get a little message telling… Continue reading Social Networks: What Are They Good For?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}