i read you. thanks!

Mark Hancock wrote:
> My relationship with Facebook, as ever, is ambivalent. It's a playful 
> space to try to deconstruct the idea of a social identity on the web, 
> blending personal and conceptual ideas, while still struggling to 
> decide what it's 'for'.
>
> I think more people need to be on there and occupy it, in the same way 
> people might occupy a university building in protest. Join in, mess it 
> up. Be aware of what connections the software is making with other 
> sites, of course and maybe in future we'll all leave.. But really, 
> let's fuck things up a bit more in our own small part of the internet 
> while we still can. Let the eternal trickster live on digitally, I say!
>
>
>
> On 24 May 2010 03:17, Roboslob <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     http://www.it-all.com/blog/index.php?seed=182
>
>     just deleted my 2-day-old facebook account (evidenced in bg img)
>
>
>
>     marc garrett wrote:
>     > Facebook, Others Giving User Private Data To Advertisers.
>     >
>     > "Facebook, MySpace, and several other social networking sites
>     have been
>     > sending data
>     >
>     
> (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704513104575256701215465596.html)
>     > to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers'
>     names and
>     > other personal details, despite promises they don't share such
>     > information without consent. The practice, which most of the
>     companies
>     > defended, sends user names or ID numbers tied to personal
>     profiles being
>     > viewed when users click on ads. After questions were raised by
>     The Wall
>     > Street Journal, Facebook and MySpace moved to make changes. By
>     Thursday
>     > morning Facebook had rewritten some of the offending computer
>     code. ...
>     > Several large advertising companies ... including Google Inc.'s
>     > DoubleClick and Yahoo Inc.'s Right Media, said they were unaware
>     of the
>     > data being sent to them from the social networking sites, and
>     said they
>     > haven't made use of it. ... The sites may have been breaching
>     their own
>     > privacy policies as well as industry standards. ... Those
>     policies have
>     > been put forward by advertising and Internet companies in arguments
>     > against the need for government regulation." Slashdot.org
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