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One of the main points in this article is that any social graph found in a service such as Facebook, Twitter, or G+ can't possible model all of the nuance of real life relationships. That's obvious. However, the author takes it a step further. Suggesting that because of this these services have no value.

That's pretty big logical leap.

An imperfect approximation of the social graph still has a lot of value.



Exactly, I mean, just ask the citizens of Egypt.

"This revolution started on Facebook." - Wael Ghonim

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/11/egypt-facebook-revo...




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