This has to win some kind of award for stupid: “our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline”

No matter how I parse that thought, it still adds up to MZ considering the public at large to be roughly the equivalent of infants, because those are the only folks I can think of whose primary sources of information are the people nearest to them.

What hubris in the first place to think that we are a few Facebook updates away from reliable cause and effect in a social context- the complexity of which makes quantum physics look like Teen Jeopardy.

If I find out that my friends and family are into some product or service, I may go the other way just because……and that’s just the tip of the tip of the iceberg in terms of how people may react in unplanned ways when prompted by machine generated inferences of social conditions.

I do have a public blog at http://www.masonwong.com where I’ve occasionally mentioned Jobvite, but I don’t think my blog gets much traffic or linkage, so again, not much search engine visibility.

Interestingly, it was easier to share the video link of the local news story on Jobvite using Facebook than generating a post about it on my public blog, which helps illuminate some of Facebook’s value as a search platform.