Google-hachibu, Facebook-hachibu
January 5th, 2008I was speaking with my friend Yasuo last night and I learned a new Japanese word: mura-hachibu.
Mura-hachibu is what happened in the old days when the village headman decided he didn’t like you and drove you out of town. Being exiled in fuedal Japan was not a desirable state.
There is ongoing research into the modern day equivalent of this phenomena online - the most popular adaptation of this term is Google-hachibu - a description of Google’s ongoing process simply deleting inconvenient entries from their search results.
So now it happens on Facebook too, and not just to Scoble. But, so far, he is probably the most famous example of Facebook-hachibu.
January 5th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
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