On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Richard Esplin <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you missed my point. > > To extend your analogy, I would only buy a weapon that was designed to > minimize accidental or irresponsible use. A gun sold by Facebook would fire > at my family whenever an advertiser told it to.
Yes! "The whole artifice, the whole idea of fake friendship, is just bait laid by the lords of the clouds to lure hypothetical advertisers--we might call them messianic advertisers--who might someday show up." --Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto Privacy implications aside, one of the biggest reasons I permanently deleted my FB account was because I felt it was a poor use of my time. That being said, I also feel that FB diminishes the identity of the individual(while concurrently monetizing the individual), encouraging a least common denominator approach to society. Time to get back to work. -- Lars /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
