Opinion piece at Wired.com
Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination. It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed.
Facebook used to be a place to share photos and thoughts with friends and family and maybe play a few stupid games that let you pretend you were a mafia don or a homesteader. It became a very useful way to connect with your friends, long-lost friends and family members. Even if you didn’t really want to keep up with them.
Soon everybody — including your uncle Louie and that guy you hated from your last job — had a profile.
And Facebook realized it owned the network.
Are you allowed to post so
Are you allowed to post so much of the article here? Seems like someone called Bibliofuture know how to paraphrase.
1500 words
Article is 1500 words. My post of the first two paragraphs is 140 words. We are a long ways from the whole article being lifted.
Why Librarians Should Stay the $#!* Away from FB
Good article.
Librarians really should take this stuff very seriously, and I have the sense that more of us, slowly, are beginning to. We owe it to our communities to be on point with this stuff. This week I’m giving a presentation about why it matters — but so far I’m getting a bit of bafflement from librarian peers. The feeling seems to be that we should encourage FB and other social networking tools because it furthers some kind of 2.0 “cause”. I just can’t seem to go there, though. Thanks for sharing this — Woody
Is There Life After Facebook?
A group of New York University students are working on a project called Diaspora*, which they hope could provide an alternative for people who want to delete their Facebook accounts.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/is-there-life-after-facebook/