Tag Archive for ‘Facebook’
A community of the enslaved
You’re never going to get together with any of these people for coffee. They’re too busy, and you’re too busy, and the miles are too vast. You probably want to Friend them because you want to rake or shovel or eat alongside them. Instead you have to rake or shovel alongside the cantankerous guy who […]
25 things to hate about Facebook
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About that 25 things fad
The Washington Post takes a stab at explaining the 25 things fad on Facebook. (Hat Tip: Fat Lip) UPDATE: Salon has an interesting take on it as well.
Quotation: The Facebook trade-off
In exchange for making our social lives more convenient, Facebook seizes the right to transform our sociality into commercially useful information, turn our relationships into market research and use that data to anticipate and shape our future selves with the ads it calculates that we should be presented with. It manages our friendships and then […]