Facebook Changes and Hypothesis on Information discovery

With the recent changes in facebook and the subsequent uproar from devastated students/(would-be, downlow) stalkers everywhere, I had to resurrect this post I had drafted a while back.
Below I present my layman’s hypothesis on the nature of information and the dynamics of information discovery in general. This may be all the more relevant in this digital age where access to information is just a search engine away. A disclaimer though, these hypotheses are not the result of any profound research on my part; they are based on observations that are not unique to me. Anyone who is plugged in to the web may find them to be self explanatory.

  • Information/knowledge cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be discovered. the total information in the universe is fixed
  • The rate of information discovery (per time) in a closed system always increases
  • The discovery of information is an entropic process. Information discovery is an “energetically” favorable process; suppressing the discovery of information requires work. This work acts against the natural, entropic flow of information plus the coerced flow of information.
  • The most stable configuration of any system is when all information is freely accessible and discoverable to all entities i.e. a system in one state of information awareness/discovery can transition to an increased state of information awareness through specific state changes.
  • The breadth of undiscovered information is indeterminable
  • Information flow/discovery cannot be constrained infinitely without an infinitely increasing cost.

    • Got a problem with any of these line items? let me know.

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