My argument against the semantic web has always been:

create documents that a computer can read, and only a computer will want to read them

This, via Adriana, is the same but worse:

http://inventorspot.com/articles/social_awareness_replace_social_networking_34355

In my past blogs, I have written about the Internet of Things and Semantic Technology where Web 3.0 will eventually no longer need the input of humans, because all the content warehoused from the Web 2.0 era will be able to data-mined by machines and use when needed .

Users of a social networking platform based on the ASTRA approach would no longer need to post status updates manually to let their family know what they are doing or where they are. Surrounded by smart objects and sensors in their home or office, the system will continually update their status information, automatically telling friends that they are unavailable to receive a phone call while they are busy cooking or that they do not want to be disturbed during a business meeting.

This video gives you a glimpse of the future which is just around the corner. The ASTRA project examines “social awareness” and how it extends the primary tenets of social networking that addresses our need to stay in touch with family and friends or to be reassured regarding our own well-being.

Watch the video. It misses the point in so many ways; yes tweets (etc) can be autogenerated, and doubtless they will be, too; but that’s not the point of tweets. The point is not surveillance, it’s stroking. A gesture, social or otherwise, is only a gesture if somewhere behind it is a human, and that human in some sense is directing it at you.

Kevin Marks calls it “phatic“. I call it human, or a “connection”, of sorts.

In fact it’s the same problem that makes this video, funny. The Twitteleh guys and the ASTRA folk ought to get together and swap notes, they could save money.