A Freshly Pressed post by Francisco Toro at boringdevelopment.com touches on many of the reasons why Facebook is like a Shadow of Evil eminating from the heart of Mordor. We need someone small and unassuming to travel to its heart and drop the Ring of Power into its servers.
Until that time, Divorcing the Robot should be required reading.
I’ve given up on facebook, but if I do not watch myself I end up getting pulled into other f-lites. LinkedIn, especially, but also SnapChat and Instagram. Ugh. So many ways to socialize without having to leave the Cheetos and DirectTV.
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I do think it is “a machine for producing an easy facsimile of a social life, one stripped of the risks and the sweat and the awkwardness and the depth.”
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