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I think your point is very pertinent: People literally advertising what it is they're looking for. I see only two problems with this: 1. It reduces serendipity
by mikro2nd 6y ago
I think your point is very pertinent: People literally advertising what it is they're looking for. I see only two problems with this:
1. It reduces serendipity. And that's the "hallways" thing missing in online interactions.
2. As soon as I put my wants/interests out on the internet it's almost certainly going to become chum for spammers, dodgy recruiters, the GRAFT and so on. i.e. Repurposed to ends antithetical to my original intent.
Still, there's something in the notion... if we can say something about ourselves (online) in a safe way, then there's at least a chance we can get some serendipity/discovery happening.
- vertex-four 6y ago> As soon as I put my wants/interests out on the internet it's almost certainly going to become chum for spammers, dodgy recruiters, the GRAFT and so on. i.e. Repurposed to ends antithetical to my original intent. This is likely true when the conference is open registration, but generally not true when it's a closed conference that just so happens to be on the internet - practically nobody who wishes to be part of the conference enough to invest time/money/energy into getting an invite are going to then sell your data on to spammers. It's the same with random irc channels without public logging - while everyone could be logging everything you say to use against you later, in practice this just doesn't happen in channels of 100-200 people.