{"id":11,"date":"2011-08-01T12:09:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T20:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shupplois\/?p=11"},"modified":"2011-08-01T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T20:09:42","slug":"internet-collaboration-takes-a-wrong-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shupplois\/2011\/08\/01\/internet-collaboration-takes-a-wrong-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet collaboration takes a wrong turn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I currently have just logged into my Facebook account and came upon a post that an acquaintance from college had put as their status: &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m actually going to do a bloody Facebook poll: should Bob* and I get married? Why? Why not? Serious responses only please.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m into the whole collaboration\/polling thing as the next person.\u00a0 (And I consider this to be a collaboration of reasons why\/why not, I might be wrong in my viewing it as this)\u00a0 However, I think that is a life decision that is taking the whole collaboration of friends and acquaintances too far.\u00a0 While it may be good to poll friends before purchasing a new car (they might have\/had the one you want and have useful information), I think deciding whether to marry a person needs to be a more face to face dialogue between the two parties involved and perhaps their families and\/or closest friends, not the 600 people you added as your friend on Facebook that you might sort of know.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to see what you all in the blogosphere think.<\/p>\n<p># end rant.<\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I currently have just logged into my Facebook account and came upon a post that an acquaintance from college had put as their status: &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m actually going to do a bloody Facebook poll: should Bob* and I get married? Why? Why not? Serious responses only please.&#8221; Now, I&#8217;m into the whole collaboration\/polling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2721,73,743],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-collaboration","tag-facebook","tag-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shupplois\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shupplois\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shupplois\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shupplois\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shupplois\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shupplois\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shupplois\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shupplois\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shupplois\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shupplois\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}