That was the week that was….
Just to sign-off the week in which I returned from an extended tour of the worlds nether regions, a few notices:
Firstly, welcome to the Blognascenti Laurence Percival - great to see you on board and blabbing on with the rest of us. Thanks to my new friend Seb in Hamburg who says my comments on Facebook (below) are “less” than progressive. TeeHee! And finaly a big thank you to the great British public. Apparently the first pimple has appeared on Tesco’s perfect skin; in 2007 we spent more online (£46.6bn) than we did with Tesco. A small victory, but a fissure in their veneer nevertheless. Perhaps this year they will launch a search engine - Toogle?
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:07 am
Aloha back at ya, Sam!
My issue with your response to Hodgkinson’s Facebook piece was that you basically argued that what’s good about Facebook (its vast reach) outweighs genuinely alarming concerns of privacy, identity, and surveillance. Yes, there’s truth in what you say, but that doesn’t negate the legitimacy of Hodgkinson’s (and others’) critique.
There was a far more eloquent argument against Facebook posted over here:
http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=500
I think Dominic does a fine job of arguing that Facebook is basically Internet For Dummies: a digital catch-all for folks who can’t be bothered by e-mail, bulletin boards, or finding independent blog hosting. Which, strictly speaking, isn’t Facebook’s fault. At the risk of being unpopular, I blame the public - or at least the kind of gumptionless rubes who play “Guitar Hero” ‘cuz they can’t be bothered to practice on the guitar collecting dust in the closet.