Carmen Pirie on basic chaordic practice

Carman Pirie with a nice bit of noticing:

The good folks at Facebook are facing a bit of a backlash after closing the account of at least one Canadian mother whose snaps of her nursing her child were deemed obscene.The Facebook group “Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!” is gaining members as fast as Angelina Jolie’s fan club…. all of them rather put off by all of this.

The way I see it, the rules have changed. Just because you’ve built (and could sell for an incredible amount of cash) a social network like Facebook, doesn’t mean you own it. The users own it. Facebook can learn this now, or learn it later – but learn it they will.

My advice: take the same ingenuity used to create Facebook and build a self-governance framework for users. Human beings have a remarkable capacity for self-governance when the conditions are right.

This is pretty basic chaordic theory really…. determine the minimum amount of order required, then get out of the way. Control is not the answer.

[tags]facebook, chaordic[/tags]