Farhad Manjoo, the technology editor at Slate, has a spooky article about new Facebook technology. Apparently an application is coming through which, once you agree, you create a personal file that lists and shares every site you visit.
So people can come and get to know you better through what you’re surfing. This is the notion of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, which will make the Facebook of the future more all-encompassing in a manner that reveals more and more about its users.
It’s a terrible idea, and Manjoo is right to question it in his Slate article (link:
http://www.slate.com/id/2304425/ )
Who needs to know every boring little link that you visit? Who cares? Who can peruse such a list and avoid making inferences? What if your surfing involves skippy, serendipitous changes and queries that do not follow an easily understood methodology?
The creative surfer is going to be labeled as "crazy" by some of his snoopier Facebook "Friends" for demonstrating a superficially senseless manner of surfing.
The only winners in this application are the gossips. This universal sharing is a terrible idea. Don’t select it once Facebook starts nagging you about it! It’s such a bad idea that I begin to pine for an alternative to Facebook itself.
Facebook is a cloud getting bigger and darker. I sense a weather change ahead.
So people can come and get to know you better through what you’re surfing. This is the notion of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, which will make the Facebook of the future more all-encompassing in a manner that reveals more and more about its users.
It’s a terrible idea, and Manjoo is right to question it in his Slate article (link:
http://www.slate.com/id/2304425/ )
Who needs to know every boring little link that you visit? Who cares? Who can peruse such a list and avoid making inferences? What if your surfing involves skippy, serendipitous changes and queries that do not follow an easily understood methodology?
The creative surfer is going to be labeled as "crazy" by some of his snoopier Facebook "Friends" for demonstrating a superficially senseless manner of surfing.
The only winners in this application are the gossips. This universal sharing is a terrible idea. Don’t select it once Facebook starts nagging you about it! It’s such a bad idea that I begin to pine for an alternative to Facebook itself.
Facebook is a cloud getting bigger and darker. I sense a weather change ahead.
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