Re: [Frameworks] Facebook

From: Flick Harrison <flick_at_flickharrison.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:19:52 -0700

On 2011-06-12, at 14:07 , Jim Flannery wrote:

> Facebook is most like a very crowded cocktail party.

Heh. A very crowded cocktail party in a psych experiment, with a big mirror on one side of the room.

I like Bruce Sterling's comparison of social networking sites to favelas. It's a shanty town on someone else's property.

You could wake up any morning to the sound of bulldozers.

The english part of this story (scroll down slightly) makes a great read:

Killed by Google / Ucciso da Google

http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0906/msg00005.html

-FLick

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