I Dispise Facebook -- What's Wrong With the Web's #1 Social Networking Site

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:50 AM EST

Article Source: Guardian Unlimited

technology, facebook, social-networking, social, behavior, friends-list, anti-social

I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on. Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?

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Killfile

This is actually an extremely well thought out essay on the social and societal problems posed by Facebook and the like. I wonder, however, if these criticisms apply to Newsvine as well. Thoughts?

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#1 - Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:51 AM EST

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Ratigan

If it is between social networking on the internet and little residual actual friendships and no social networking on the internet and no residual actual friendships, I know which I prefer. People don't hang out less because of facebook. They also don't meet fewer people because of facebook. It is the same as it has always been except now you've got a facebook (df. a source to put a face to the name).

Facebook, I believe for most people, has become an organizational tool. After learning everything about everyone, the site has been saturated with information and "applications" to where it's only use is to organize get-togethers (and play scrabulous).

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#2 - Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:10 AM EST

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