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Re:Douglas Rushkoff: I’m thinking it may be good to be off s... by mentat on Saturday February 13, 2016 @09:20PM (#11096843)
Human relationships have always been about selective ignorance.
Re:Douglas Rushkoff: I’m thinking it may be good to be off s... by mtviewdave on Sunday February 14, 2016 @01:07AM (#11097329)
Mark Zuckerberg believes that presenting differing personas to different audiences displays "a lack of integrity"[1] and thus Facebook is deliberately engineered to encourage an individual to present their "true" self to all "friends" equally.

[1]http://www.michaelzimmer.org/2010/05/14/facebooks-zuckerberg...

Re:Douglas Rushkoff: I’m thinking it may be good to be off s... by bottled_poe on Sunday February 14, 2016 @02:10AM (#11097453)
> Mark Zuckerberg believes that...

Any self-respecting person should not care what comes next.

Re:Douglas Rushkoff: I’m thinking it may be good to be off s... by ssalazar on Sunday February 14, 2016 @05:38AM (#11097795)
I guess it's edgy to dismiss celebrity outright, but Mark Zuckerberg is the steward of one of the largest social phenomena of our time, so I should think it matters a great deal what he believes--not necessarily because we should agree, but because of the potentially significant effects of those beliefs.
Re:Douglas Rushkoff: I’m thinking it may be good to be off s... by camillomiller on Sunday February 14, 2016 @06:48AM (#11097921)
I agree. It's important to criticize him. Harshly. He's the harbinger of a change whose proportions are yet to be fully understand, but it's like we're all living guinea pigs of his experiment and happy to be that. I don't see how we can be fine with putting a self-declared mildly autistic little genius in charge of defining the nature of social interactions in the new millennium. "here's what I think relationships should be like", says such child playing with his own huge money-churning game.
Re:Douglas Rushkoff: I’m thinking it may be good to be off s... by liuhenry on Sunday February 14, 2016 @02:17AM (#11097468)
In contrast, WeChat (which is the closest equivalent to Facebook in China) has a number of features that are specifically tailored to allow for these different social contexts. For example, comments on a post are only visible to you if you're friends with the commenter, not just the OP. [1]

[1] https://medium.com/chrysaora-weekly/three-moments-with-wecha...

Re:Douglas Rushkoff: I’m thinking it may be good to be off s... by soperj on Sunday February 14, 2016 @02:06AM (#11097443)
Mark also has problems functioning in the real world.
Re:Douglas Rushkoff: I’m thinking it may be good to be off s... by walterbell on Sunday February 14, 2016 @01:12AM (#11097336)
The act of observation changes the observed.

There are many ways to observe.

In whose interest does Facebook observe?

Re:Douglas Rushkoff: I’m thinking it may be good to be off s... by dhj on Saturday February 13, 2016 @10:49PM (#11097055)
Do not reveal our surveillance, Gorlock!