Wrath of Blog

Look. I can’t resist. Let us consider:

But when you get down to it, as a colleague of mine said, “[facebook is] a thin coat of paint over a massive data-mining operation.”

Probably even an unprecedented one. Never before have we collectively turned over so much for so little.

We are a generation of suckers. It’s not just Facebook. We turn over our private lives willy-nilly to the internet. One of these days, we’re going to regret that. I don’t know how, but data and access to it creates power. And somebody or some people are going to find some extremely disturbing ways to cash out on that.

Time and again, the company has made private information public without notice or consent, or otherwise broken its pacts with users.

And yet people don’t care. It’s quite amazing.The article goes on to talk about people who are concerned about privacy and aggressive ads and stuff, saying “I don’t know why I’m still on Facebook” and yet. And yet.

There’s no other place where you can simultaneously broadcast to your mom, nephew, best friend and high school chum.

And somehow people think that’s a good thing? Do we really all have so much info that needs broadcasting to everyone? I’d like someone to explain the psychology and sociology of that to me. That seems like a totally stupid idea to me.

Maybe everybody secretly wants to be a Kardashian.