Apr 23, 2010

If You Have Any Doubt About The Wrongness

...that Facebook represents:

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8 comments:

  1. JMApril 23, 2010 at 2:01 PM

    I..I have a facebook.. I go to it ocasionally,but it's nice for family and long distance friend commmunication..heh..heh?

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  2. Jack CrowApril 23, 2010 at 2:14 PM

    I guess that's not the point of my criticism. My youngest brother is all over facebook, and I don't think there's anything wrong with him.

    Well, other than being a perfect example of merit apathy (even if he really is an earnest, nice young man).

    The problem, I think, is that it's a giant data mining operation - and its latest policy changes fit in nicely with all that corporate sponsorship behind the intrepid founder's ugly little head.

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  3. Jack CrowApril 23, 2010 at 2:34 PM

    JM,

    See:

    http://pezcandy.blogspot.com/2010/04/amber-milgram-interviews-boy-genius.html

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  4. JMApril 23, 2010 at 3:23 PM

    So he's to be hated because he's a rich havard boy? So is Conan Fucking O Brien. Unless you think it's some secret government front for the patriot act. Foxtrot's rather insane anyway: he's paranoid of anyone who doesn't think like him and is also a states rights type of guy. Whenever I try to disagree with him,he thinks I'm a CIA operative. No really.

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  5. Jack CrowApril 23, 2010 at 3:30 PM

    JM,

    Not that he's a Harvard boy. That he's pretending to be a social innovator, in order to cover a massive data mining operation.

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  6. JMApril 23, 2010 at 5:02 PM

    So it is a cover for the Patriot Act?

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  7. JustinApril 23, 2010 at 5:13 PM

    Jack: "It is a data mining operation."
    JM: "So you are saying it's a patriot act front?"

    A perfect example of taking someone's self-evident remark and distorting into a without evidence, conspiracy theory, in order to make it look ridiculous.

    Look, FB is not even attempting to hide the data mining aggregation it is providing to marketers. This is a selling point for it.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703447104575117972284656374.html

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/business/media/31adco.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print

    etc.

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  8. JMApril 23, 2010 at 6:38 PM

    All right, point taken: that coke thing's a fucking stupid idea.

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