I don't have a Facebook page. I don't want one. However, I keep getting sent invitations to join Facebook, purporting to be from friends or colleagues.
Facebook fails to disclose their email address, thus denying me key knowledge about how to get in touch with them without resorting to a clunky and advert-saturated web interface. The phrase which springs to mind (and I apologise for my crude language, but it is entirely appropriate) is, "Fuck you, information bottleneckers!" That Facebook fails to disclose this most basic piece of contact information betrays their opportunism - but it appears that their cynicism doesn't end there. This in my InBox today: "Reminder: Allan Kaprow invited you to join Facebook..." Allan Kaprow Invite sent: Mar 12, 2008 The performance artist Allan Kaprow, pictured in the Facebook email contact, died on April 5, 2006. Kaprow himself said, "In this context of achievement-and-death, artists who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported..." Best Regards, James ===== _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
