I blogged a response here: http://weblogsky.com/2008/01/the_politics_of_facebook.html
"Like any online community, Facebook will become what its users make it, regardless of the plans of Thiel et al. We're only susceptible to commercialization a la television if that's what we accept. I'm glad Hodgkinson's given us this background info to ponder, but it doesn't worry me. We get the communities we accept, just as we get the governments we deserve. If we don't make the effort to be better citizens, better community members, better *people, * that's our fault, and not the fault of manipulative neoconservatives." ~ Jon On Jan 21, 2008 5:41 AM, Patrice Riemens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > bwo one of the Sourcelists or Bytes4all with thanks > > > > original: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook > > With friends like these ... > > Facebook has 59 million users - and 2 million new ones join each > week. But you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal > information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind > the social networking site > > Tom Hodgkinson > > (This article appeared in the Guardian on Monday January 14 2008 on p6 > of the G2 comment & features section. It was last updated at 15:17 on > January 18 2008.) > -- Jon Lebkowsky http://weblogsky.com Principal, Polycot Associates, LLC http://polycot.com Principal, Social Web Strategies, LLC # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
