{"id":2324,"date":"2009-01-11T15:01:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T14:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2009-01-11T15:08:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T14:08:37","slug":"there-are-no-trolls-in-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2324","title":{"rendered":"There are no trolls in Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the beginning I only accepted people I knew as friends in FB but after having a waiting list of 700 potential friends I decided to accept them and new ones. I now have around 2300 friends. Recently a new phenomenom started: comments on Facebook<\/a>. Maybe because of the closeness that FB inspires I now get a lot of comments on my status updates in FB. And because FB is linked to this blog I get comments on posts on FB instead of my blog. Now the interesting thing is that there are no trolls in Facebook and the average level of comments on FB is very good. There is dissent in FB, which is positive. But no trolling. In FB I don\u00b4t get antisemitic comments, or anti south American comments (yes in Spain some people have anti South American prejudice) or people insulting me because I have done well in life which seems to be a favorite occupation of some readers of my Spanish blog. People in FB disagree strongly with me sometimes, but their behavior is similar to the one they would have in public. Disagreeing without insulting. I only had one instance of a person insulting me in FB and I have been a member since mid 2006. And it was simple. I removed this person from my friend\u00b4s list. But that is one in over 2 years. In my Spanish blog I get insulted every week, especially when I write about religion or politics. In the end I think that the success of FB is that it elevates the conversation. But not everyone agrees. Benjami Villoslada<\/a> co founder of Meneame<\/a> for example for example recently wrote that he misses trolls in FB, that everyone si so polite it\u00b4s boring. Indeed his latest update was that he was going to Meneame because he wanted to find some trolls, that he missed them. Another friend of mine instead, Anil de Melo, who got “trolled out” after the Mobuzz closing, spoke to me about installing Facebook Connect in his blog and only accepting comments from friends in Facebook. But the problem I see with this is that it forces people to be in FB and that is also bad. None of us want FB to monopolize the conversation. <\/p>\n

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