Interesting article on the roots and beginnings of Facebook. We are their guinea pigs.
“…does Facebook really connect people? Doesn’t it rather disconnect us, since instead of doing something enjoyable such as talking and eating and dancing and drinking with my friends, I am merely sending them little ungrammatical notes and amusing photos in cyberspace, while chained to my desk? Far from connecting us, Facebook actually isolates us at our workstations….It also encourages a disturbing competitiveness around friendship: it seems that with friends today, quality counts for nothing and quantity is king. The more friends you have, the better you are. You are “popular”, in the sense much loved in American high schools…if I want to connect with the people around me, I will revert to an old piece of technology. It’s free, it’s easy and it delivers a uniquely individual experience in sharing information: it’s called talking…All of the above would have been enough to make me reject Facebook for ever. But there are more reasons to hate it. Many more….”
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