farmboy - 8:49 pm on Jun 23, 2009 (gmt 0)

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions a more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline. In Zuckerberg's vision, users will query this "social graph" to find a doctor, the best camera, or someone to hire—rather than tapping the cold mathematics of a Google search.

25 years ago, there was a Presidential election in the U.S. where the winner carried 49 of the 50 states. There is a story about a woman who lived in Manhattan at the time and remarked that she didn't understand how that winning candidate won because none of her friends voted for him. She was evidently under the impression that her circle of friends was representative of the country as a whole - or worse, she was under the impression that her circle of friends WAS the country.

Either way, this Zuckerberg guy reminds me of that woman. Kinda' "tone deaf" so to speak.

Sorry Mr. Zuckerberg. Someone among my friends, colleagues, peers, and family might be able to tell me who is winning on American Idol if that were to be important to me, but I don't think they will be able to help me find a replacement part for my widget at 3 AM on Sunday like Google will.

FarmBoy