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Do you really find it all that worrying, more so than the virus itself? I'm not a FB apologist but the fact that they have this network affect and that doctors
by mlrtime 7y ago
Do you really find it all that worrying, more so than the virus itself? I'm not a FB apologist but the fact that they have this network affect and that doctors can use it for free is outstanding. This would not have happened 20 years ago.
- read_if_gay_ 7y agoThat’s not so much due to Facebook as it is to the internet.
- edouard-harris 7y agoFacebook has, in fairness, made this sort of collaboration far easier than it would have been in the days of the pre-Facebook Internet.
- CaptArmchair 7y agoThe kicker is that this isn't really news for anyone who works in the realm of open science, information dissemination, digital archiving and so on. If you think salvaging information from social media is a challenge, consider how much gets lost in e-mail or byzantine folder structures on shared drives, or legacy document management systems, usb drives or personal laptops. The value of information isn't just determined by it's relevancy or "usefulness" in a particular context, but also by it's level of accessibility and discoverability. Moreover, let's not forget that a huge amount of that information is noise and only a fraction of that will converge in peer reviewed science down the line. And that's how human communication and sharing of information usually works. Not everything needs to be kept or archived on the spot "just in case". That's just not feasible.