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Facebook Tell-All "Big Juicy Fun," Filled With Sexism, Assholes
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10/21/09
anyone else having this problem?
#tech
#groupthink
10/27/09
#groupthink
07/20/09
Everything on the Internet is just a tool: it's never been about the tools' "founders" - it's ALWAYS about how the adopters use it.
Livejournal and Blogger did many things in 2001 better than Myspace and Facebook have nearly a decade later. What they got right was the automation of presenting connected people with suggested and explicit relationships. AOL, MSN, Prodigy, you name it - they too were social networks, albeit essentially "self-serve" in the sense that you didn't have all of these relationships tossed in your lap all the time. God forbid you venture to the edge of the map...
Personally, it pisses me off that there is so much buzz about what hasn't ostensibly changed. I like the idea of the Web as a vast terrain that I can explore under my own control. Facebook and all of the other portals feel like fucking cruise ships. Screw that.
/ oldguy rant
Now get off my lawn!
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If that's the Facebook crew, I don't want to imagine the seedy debauchery Myspace founders get into.
07/20/09
I believe the guy who founded Twitter made some horrible, asshat comment about the Iranian people ruining something that was supposed to be purely shallow.
The founders of these types of media might be douchenozzles. They might have intended to make purely infantile networking sites that appeal to our baser nature.
But in the midst of all the narcisism the users of this media have changed it's purpose and made it bigger. Used it to connect to long lost loves, to family we never knew. People are finding love and righting wrongs and all sorts of beautiful things. They are even fighting revolutions.
So this guy might be a horrible pig, but he can not take credit for the beautiful part of his creation. That happened DESPITE him.
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This guy is not responsible for the redeemable aspects of his creation.
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God help us.
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And that's what Facebook is to me. A humongous pus-filled growth that is unwelcome, unavoidable and too big to eliminate without serious repercussions.
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Also, I kind of assume 75% of companies whose products/services I use are run by (or have been founded by) assholes.
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But seriously, Facebook invited awkward interactions with people I'm too wussy to un-friend. So I guess I'm not anti-social; I just hate everyone I went to high school with... aka I am a normal human being.