Manara

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Andrea Doyle for a profile piece in Successful Meetings Magazine. I had the chance to talk about how much I love my digital tribe and how digital media can be used to enhance conferences and events. Thanks to Jesse Morgan for doing the photos! Full article after the jump.

Successful Meetings Magazine

Facebook owns us — Copy me happy

Some scary food for thought from the above article:

“So what happens when you do something like that? Facebook delete you. They erase you from the digital earth. All pictures that he was tagged in seems to be gone (I can’t find one single picture with him on there right now). He’s no longer in my list of friends. Facebook didn’t send out a notice saying that my friend was erased. I actually found out that he was gone from Facebook when he didn’t show to the moving in party at Flattr, when someone there told me he never received an invitation. It was weeks after, and I had invited him to another thing he didn’t show to either. I now know why.

Like everybody else today, I invite people via Facebook to events. If they’re not on there, they won’t get invited, it’s too much hassle, and “everybody is there” with few exceptions. This means that if Facebook deletes a friend from your online catalogue, you might actually stop hanging out with them offline as well. This is not acceptable. In a democracy we break monopolies and we allow for trials to happen (some of them are actually fair as well). On facebook, we’re being treated as goods.”