Re:I Despise Facebook...
by pg on Monday January 14, 2008 @12:46PM
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What a crock. Facebook's design was set long before Thiel invested in it.
There's a lot of mistaken stuff on the web, but this article is interesting because it's an example of the sort of writing people could only get away with before the web: the house journalist who makes a show of having done some research, but doesn't really understand the stuff he's writing about.
"Why do I need a computer to connect with people around me?"
This could have been written about the phone in 1930 (I'm sure one could dig up all kinds of juicy things about the politics of the people "behind" AT&T) or printing in 1500.
"Far from connecting us, Facebook actually isolates us at our workstations."
Workstations? Who uses a workstation? Does this guy not realize that phones are connected to the Internet?
"On Facebook, you can be free to be who you want to be, as long as you don't mind being bombarded by adverts for the world's biggest brands."
What free web site is this not true of? The site on which this article appeared is running ads.
This article shows why bloggers are gaining readers and print journalists are losing them. A high school kid surveying the world from his bedroom could do better.
There's a lot of mistaken stuff on the web, but this article is interesting because it's an example of the sort of writing people could only get away with before the web: the house journalist who makes a show of having done some research, but doesn't really understand the stuff he's writing about.
"Why do I need a computer to connect with people around me?"
This could have been written about the phone in 1930 (I'm sure one could dig up all kinds of juicy things about the politics of the people "behind" AT&T) or printing in 1500.
"Far from connecting us, Facebook actually isolates us at our workstations."
Workstations? Who uses a workstation? Does this guy not realize that phones are connected to the Internet?
"On Facebook, you can be free to be who you want to be, as long as you don't mind being bombarded by adverts for the world's biggest brands."
What free web site is this not true of? The site on which this article appeared is running ads.
This article shows why bloggers are gaining readers and print journalists are losing them. A high school kid surveying the world from his bedroom could do better.