Valis Krebs talks in an interview in the Detroit News - technology section about social network tracking software and Visible Path (which scans email and web logs to discover social patterns of interaction and relationships):
But the big question is whether people will reject these technologies as too intrusive. "Anything that disrupts how we normally interact with each other will not work," said Valdis Krebs, who developed seminal software 15 years ago that maps interactions in an organization. "We often get the technology right, but we screw up the sociology."
Valdis goes even one step further questioning whether the technology will be adopted by the people in the network, or whether it will drive them to have a 'dual social personality'
Consultants like Krebs also wonder whether such software is truly able to detect nuances in people's relationships or prompt them to share valuable resources with someone they don't know well.
(the article also appeared in USA today)
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