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Facebook and spirit of the Web

One of the fundamental principles of the Web is its universality : the possibility for anyone to share information with anyone else or a resource, wherever it is are, thus making the web a universal information space and interconnected .

This principle, taken for granted in democratic nations, are overshadowed by the creation and growth within the network, monolithic entity like Facebook and other social networks, which do not respect the spirit of openness and sharing, prevent, in fact, the free dissemination of information.

Let's see how this can happen.

Within the web, the URI is the key to the universality .

One U niform R eSource The Identifier is a string that identifies uniquely a generic resource that can be a URL, a document, image, file, service, an e-mail address, etc.. (From Wikipedia )

using URI based on a proprietary protocol, Facebook allows you to view and share information and resources only within their own site: thus becomes impossible to share the data with those outside. Facebook
actually looks like a black hole: it collects and stores data within its database and reused to provide value-added services, but only to those who constitute the community. The pages are on the web, but no data .

This trend, which characterizes Facebook and other less famous sites and services, is a serious threat to the future of the network, which could fragmented into smaller entities and isolated from each other.
With its 500 million users, Facebook is a platform for success, has enormous potential, it is convenient and easy to use, but is based on a wrong concept of sharing.
The choice of what you share with those who depend on each individual user, which is also a responsibility not to imprison the universal value of information in isolated groups, but the system should not impose any limits to this freedom of choice. When this happens the system must be changed.

This and other threats, which violate the principles of freedom, Equality and neutrality that characterize the network since its birth, were highlighted by Tim Berners-Lee, a founding father of the web, in a his article that appeared in Scientific American the end of last year.
The article (which will also be number 510 on The Science of , on sale from February 2011) deserves a thorough read to understand that certain principles, that maybe we take for granted, in fact, must be defended at all costs . The network is and must remain, the greatest legacy of democracy and freedom of human knowledge.

Article I opened my eyes and realized how certain issues importanti siano ampiamente sottovalutate. Nel mio piccolo ho deciso di cambiare il modo di condividere le informazioni. Come molti altri sono rimasto ammaliato da Facebook, di cui sono un assiduo utilizzatore da quasi tre anni, ma d'ora in avanti eviterò di usarlo per condividere qualsiasi risorsa che non riguardi la sfera privata, riservando il suo utilizzo esclusivamente allo sharing di informazioni personali con i miei amici (di come Facebook trasformi i rapporti interpersonali scriverò in un altro post).
Questo è, tra l'altro, uno dei motivi per cui ho deciso di rispolverare il blog.


Link:
- Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standars and Neutrality, Tim Berners-Lee, Scientific American Magazine, dicembre 2010
- URI, Wikipedia
- Tim Berners-Lee, Wikipedia