Is it really social when a computer determines what to show you? We are seeing more and more aggregators. More and more services and applications that pull in feeds and data from all everywhere and present it in a linear format. I get it. I use Google Reader every day. That's how I found this article. That's how I find most things.
But when you take Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc. and aggregate all the streams together, doesn't it defeat the purpose? Look at how the Newsfeed on Facebook now works. You no longer have to say anything to anyone, you can simply talk into the ether and Facebook goes out and tries to find the people most interested in what you have to say. Is that even really social media? Why not go all the way and just have bots respond to your posts? Would anyone even know? Would anyone even care?
