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Facebook Declares the End of Books
Ok, guys. We had a good run, but that whole book thing is done and over according to Facebook. They’re suing a website called Teachbook.com, an online community for teachers, because it offers social networking AND has book in its…
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Jonathan Lethem and David Gates Talk Facebook, Internet, The Future
“I have no idea how to handle this new mode of living (I guess “living” is the word) in fiction. I probably spend more time e-mailing and reading online than I do having non-virtual human contact—and I bet I’m not…
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RE: Online Course Evaluations
“What great dialogues we’ve had on e-mail, cell phone, text messages, Facebook, and Twitter—uv taut me tns!! ☺”
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What if the Facebook privacy changes are a good thing?
Fred Vogelstein, writing for the Wired blog Epicenter, looks at Facebook’s history on privacy, and points out that we shouldn’t really be shocked at what Mark Zuckerberg is doing. “Indeed, Zuckerberg’s challenges to conventional thinking about online privacy have become…
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Should We All Commit Facebook Suicide?
“But somewhere in that transition from a social site meant to deepen interpersonal relationships to a self promotional, commercial tool, Facebook lost its appeal. “The various facets of my life merged into a web of connectivity where I could no…
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Abandoning the Mothership
We’ve all heard the stories about people getting fired from jobs because of overly revealing Facebook photos, or of couples breaking up by changing their Facebook “relationship status” before even talking to one another. Though Facebook is meant to exist…
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Politics Sunday (Talks Sex)
For absolutely no reason except that I feel like it, I’m posting a lot about sex today, so in order to be consistent, Politics Sunday will be Sexual Politics Sunday for today and today only. The Atlantic discusses the “sexual…
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Facebook Gives You Syphilis
“Professor Peter Kelly, director of public health in Teesside, claimed staff had found a link between social networking sites and the spread of the bacteria, especially among young women.” A researcher in Britain claims that Facebook is contributing to a…
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“The pulp of 2010”
Jonah Lehrer laments a big problem with the social web: “The one shared feature that I’m most interested in is also a little disturbing: the tendency of the social software to quantify our social life. Facebook doesn’t just let us…
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What Will My Facebook Say When I’m Dead?
“New online lockboxes allow you to specify beforehand who’ll get your passwords, which private Flickr photos should be purged, and what final status should be posted at Facebook, but these services are no substitute for a will. And writers and…
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Morning Coffee
Stephen Hawking: galactic tagger. The long-list for the weirdest titled books of 2009 award (has been announced). NYRB essay on the history of Facebook. The Scentisizer! Prophetic pictures from 1905 Wisconsin. (via Mefi.)
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Conversations About the Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee
Facebook employees, after all, know better than most the value of privacy.