Commentary from Carrie: Facebook for Spies

Commentary from Carrie: Facebook for Spies

I have a highschool friend who I recently reconnected with on Facebook. She now is a lawyer for the UN, travelling to such places as Liberia and Eastern Europe to monitor elections and such.    UN employees have recently become big adopters of facebook as a way to keep up with the people that they meet in their travels.   People in these types of organizations (spies, UN lawyers) really benefit from the addition of these electronic social networks, becuase they provide tools for the far flung, loosely organized organizations they are a part of.  I wonder, though, if this means that ttraditional organzations will become more loosely organized and far flung, becuase these tools create new opportunities to monitor and track the less formal strucutres in the organization.  More on this in a couple of weeks.