This seems on topic: I got an automated call the other day from a company telling me that there is a recall on one of their products. More specifically, records from my grocery store (presumably data stored in connection with my rewards card) indicated that I had purchased their product between 3 and 18 months previously. It was a little cool, and a little creepy at the same time.
Eric On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 07:23 AM, Pieter Steenekamp <[email protected]> wrote: > If a grocery store offers to sell you a bread for a dollar, do you >accuse them of forcing you to give you a dollar? Then why do you accuse >Facebook of forcing you to do anything? If you don't like it, simply >don't open an account with them. If you don't buy bread then you die, so >I would rather accuse the grocery store of forcing me to part with my >dollar. If you don't open a Facebook account, at least you don't die. > >Pieter > >On 2010/09/26 09:03 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote: >> No, it is not ridiculuos, it is serious. >> I think the Facebook phenomenon rises a number of interesting questions: >> Who are you? What is the core of a person? Why is social media so >> successful? >> When does a company become evil? >> >> Social media and social networks are >> a hot trend, maybe because people feel >> increasingly isolated in a digital and >> urbanized world. Erich Fromm says in "The Art of Loving": >"The deepest >> need of man is to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of >> his aloneness." All social networks exploit this need. >> For example a social network for books like GoodReads or Shelfari >> connects you to readers with similar interests. >> Facebook is special. It claims to connect >> you to the people you already know. >> The problem is: >> >> a) You probably have multiple circles of >> friends, and these friends belong to different >> areas: family, job, hobby, sports, etc. >> Facebook allows you only to have one >> circle of friends and one single identity, your physical identity >> characterized by your real name and your real photo. Since the >> identity forms the core of a person, it reduces you to your physical >> appearance. >> If you are not good looking or if you have >> no friends, like the shy nerdy student Kip Drordy in the video, then >> Facebook classifies you as a loser. It denies you >> to be what you want to be, but the declaration >> of independence says: "all Men are created equal, they are endowed >> [..] with certain unalienable Rights, among these are Life, Liberty >> and the pursuit of Happiness." >> It does not mention the right to have a >> Facebook profile. >> >> b) To connect you to your friends, a company must own your private >data. >> Facebook forces you to reveal your private data, to give up your >> privacy. Would >> you tell the government who your friends >> are, where you have been, what you are doing? >> Then why do you tell it to a private company? >> Should our private life and our private data belong to a company at >> all? The people who think Facebook is evil say no. This is similar to >> the question of Microsoft a few years ago: should our Operating >> System, the Operating System of our computers, belong to a company? >> The people who think Microsoft is evil say no. >> >> Contrary to Twitter, Facebook forces you to give up your privacy: "We >> will connect you to your friends >> (if you give us your private data)". >> and reduces you to your physical appearance >> "We will connect you to your friends >> (if you tell us what you are doing >> right now and how you look like)" >> That's why Facebook is evil. >> >> -J. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: Alfredo Covaleda To: The Friday >> Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Sent: Saturday, September 25, >> 2010 10:58 PM >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] You Have 0 Friends >> >> So funny. >> >> My Facebook profile has more friends than me. Isn't is ridiculous? >> >> Alfredo >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > >============================================================ >FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > Eric Charles Professional Student and Assistant Professor of Psychology Penn State University Altoona, PA 16601
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