When I came up with this idea I really wanted to make it happen mainly because I thought it would be fun for me. It was an excuse to just put my voice in every corner of facebook i could crawl into. The results are in and I focused my results on the reactions of the people I was commenting on. I obviously got a lot of peripheral interaction from people "liking" my comments or commenting on them other than the people I intended, I simple left those interactions out of the data. As you can see the majority of people simply ignored me (including my own siblings) but in close second were people who got that I was joking and responded in kind. A few people simply...responded, maybe they were trying to be funny but I certainly didn't get it. Two people "liked" my comments and I certainly appreciated that, such openness is rare these days. All in all I got a nice even number of comments (30) in which to visually represent the data. I collected it for 12 hours 10am-10pm and commented on every single status update that wasnt a picture or event thing. How it ended at 30 was luck, sweet sweet predictable luck. To me this shows restraint on the part of my 293 friends ( I know I'm like SOO popular) and that maybe I choose my friends (even phony internet ones) with more care then I thought.
Facebook may not be here to stay (myspace certainly wasn't) but the social network is, and if we continue to keep to the psuedo-established social rules that exist on the internet, and hopefully further develope those, I think it can trully become a source of intellectual discussion as well as a way to force stupid jokes and videos of cats jumping into boxes on the unsuspecting. Man, that cat really loves boxes.
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