Thursday, February 26, 2009

Voting on Facebook

A recent BBC article reveals how Facebook has made in unprecedented move within the world of social networking sites. With the recent uproar on Facebook regarding how it handles users data, founder Mark Zuckerberg offers a solution by introducing the right for users to vote on issues of future of the website. The voting has been designed in a very specific way, first allowing for comments on the issue at hand followed by a vote. Further, it has been designed so that minority of users cannot create a "binding election." Zucker explained that he hopes this will make stronger bonds between the people behind the scenes and the users. I think this is an extremely interesting concept and will be even more interesting to watch play out. Users cannot complain about having more power, or will they? Also it will be interesting to watch if this becomes a standard on social networking sites. What will the users who voted differently than the winning opinion do? It will be interesting to see what kind of groups will start forming over this issue.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7913289.stm

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