Inside Facebook’s Two Years of Hell
Inside Facebook’s Two Years of Hell
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he furious energy of this big bang emanated, in large part, from a brilliant and simple insight. Humans are social animals. But the internet is a cesspool. That scares people away from identifying themselves and putting personal details online. Solve that problem—make people feel safe to post—and they will share obsessively. Make the resulting database of privately shared information and personal connections available to advertisers, and that platform will become one of the most important media technologies of the early 21st century.”
New Book Alert: February 24-28, 2020
My weekly collection of new and notable books for your pop culture pleasure and edification: #ReadMoreTweetLess.
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Boutique Bubbles
Man…bubbles are surreal…
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How To Say Good-Bye on Facebook
So Strange: on Facebook I have 2 dead friends. And every so often somebody will write on their walls and they’ll appear in my feed.
It’s startling. It’s like you’re back…and I just got used to our silence. In between all this Facebook life of babies, relationships beginning and ending, memes and cutting edge sarcasm creeps this unsettling subtle death.
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Facebook Wants To Hear You…
PSA: For any of my Facebook friends who enjoy the darker Darth Vader side of the internet…you know nude midget wrestling (Mexican or traditional…), would you rather lick it or smell it and other assorted seedy sites that require a history deletion please be aware that the Facebook app will pick up the sounds of those sites and broadcast it to us, your Facebook friends.
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Movie: The Social Network
Welcome to the Long Tail of greed.
The Social Network is a modern parable and a flawed tragedy, easily Fincher’s most mainstream film. Yet in many ways a sequel to Fight Club…think what would happen if you took Project Mayhem online.
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