The best part appears at the very end of Janine Carmona's plea for freedom from corporate advertising: "Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool."
Amalyah Keshet ----- Original Message ----- From: Nina Simon To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 11:54 PM Subject: [MCN-L] interesting facebook response Folks, I know there's been discussion here about museums' use of facebook and the rule that institutions are not allowed to have generic institutional facebook pages ala MySpace. I received this email via a creativity listserv and found it interesting, both because a. it sounds like Facebook may be loosening its restrictions and b. at least one Facebook user isn't happy about it. Nina Simon www.museumtwo.com Begin forwarded message: > From: Janine Carmona <punkquaker at yahoo.com> > Date: August 29, 2007 11:02:02 AM PDT > To: idc at mailman.thing.net > Subject: [iDC] My Facebook Note RE WalMart's Ad on Facebook > > Hello! Matt Waxman suggested I forward my note to this address. Use > it well. > -Janine > > Facebook Needs to Get its Priorites Straight > By Janine Carmona > 5:48pm Wednesday, Aug 22 > > This is a letter to my fellow students and users of Facebook. > > I was alarmed today when I came across a group on Facebook > sponsored by WalMart trying to sell me crap for my dorm room. > > This is the first such blatantly corporate advertisements on > Facebook I have run across. > > No matter what you think of WalMart as a company (and there are > many who think that their business practices are disgusting and > harmful: http://walmartwatch.com/) you should note that Facebook is > a social networking site that defines itself as a place for people > to connect with those who live and work around them. This does not > include faceless advertisers. The WalMart group is not a person to > network with, to share stories and pictures with or to talk to- it > is a portal to get us to buy stuff. > > WalMart doesn't have a "face" to "book" and neither do any of the > other corporations that get advertising time from Facebook. I am > tired of corporations invading one of the only Internet spaces left > that are not simply trying to get their hands on my money. > > In lieu of noting this Facebook should use these simple guidelines > to keep me from deleting my account and moving over to the myriad > of social networking sites that have not sold out: > > 1. Corporations are not individuals, they cannot "network" and > should not have access to the human beings who use Facebook, their > contact information, or their time. > > 2. Facebook should seriously consider the human rights and business > practices of a potential advertiser. At least post a warning that > there have been problems with these instead of bowing down to > whoever has the money. It's a bit demeaning, no? > > 3. I'm not saying individuals who like WalMart should have no say > here, hell, -actual- users should make all the "I Love WalMart" > groups they want. Let's just make sure the people making groups are > actually people, shall we? Free speech is fine, but money should > not be able to buy the free speech of a human being. Otherwise, > those with the most money would have the most free speech, and that > wouldn't be fair to the rest of us would it? > > See? 3 practical and simple steps to making me a happy Facebook > consumer. If you agree with me, perhaps you should share this note, > send the practical steps to the Facebook team, or go to the Walmart > group and post a comment on the page-there's already some > fascinating discussion there. > > All my love to the users of Facebook and the employees of WalMart > everywhere-may you soon make a decent wage. > > Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos > new Car Finder tool. > _______________________________________________ > iDC -- mailing list of the Institute for Distributed Creativity > (distributedcreativity.org) > iDC at mailman.thing.net > https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc > > List Archive: > http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/ > > iDC Photo Stream: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/idcnetwork/ > > RSS feed: > http://rss.gmane.org/gmane.culture.media.idc > > iDC Chat on Facebook: > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2457237647 > > Share relevant URLs on Del.icio.us by adding the tag iDCref _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
