Links for January 18th

10 Comments

1. Sarah says:

   January 20, 2008 at 7:56 am

   The Facebook article is greatly disturbing. I’ve never understood the appeal of, BigBrotheresque, social networking sites to begin with. Particularly those of my friends that expressed their concerns about privacy when I got a rebate card from the drugstore chain I usually buy my stuff at have signed up to any national and international social networking site one can think of. Apparently it’s ok for them to have others know who they remotely know or share the same views on sushi with but not ok for them to have my drugstore know my cats like the cheese-filled crunchy cat treats and I use Nivea and Dove shampoo and conditioner; stuff anybody roaming through my rubbish could find out if it really was so important. To me, the flipside of the sites is that they disconnect people from others that choose old-fashioned virtual communication; those that refuse to sign up are not “in the know” and are left out of ongoing events – out of convenience. Afterall, why bother emailing some info, text-messaging or giving a call when everybody can check on your personal schedule online? Didn’t your mother sort of do that, too, when she checked your timetable and packed your schoolbag for the following day during first grade? And how come I’m the only one among the people that used to hang out during university that gets to see the world through actual travelling? But I suppose you better not put first graders on a long-distance flight to foreign shores to entertain themselves there for a while…
2. Ray says:

   January 21, 2008 at 6:30 pm

   Does this mean we can’t be friendsters or myspacers?
3. Daniel says:

   January 22, 2008 at 12:20 am

   I never liked Facebook! Myspace is truly proletarian yo.
4. Sarah says:

   January 22, 2008 at 12:25 am

   Ray, I’m sorry..
5. Mobius says:

   January 22, 2008 at 7:58 am

   Daniel–You know MySpace is owned by Newscorp, the company that owns Fox News and The Weekly Standard, among other insanely conservative news outlets, right?

   Proletarian my ass.
6. Ray says:

   January 22, 2008 at 2:48 pm

   [This comment is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Church of Scientology International]
7. Sarah says:

   January 22, 2008 at 4:21 pm

   “Hand us the cash.”?
8. xisnotx says:

   January 26, 2008 at 5:29 am

   Ma’ariv: Leviev Boasts A Contribution That Never Existed
   http://www.business-humanright....._page_view
9. B.BarNavi says:

   January 31, 2008 at 5:41 am

   … was Ray’s comment a meta-joke, or is Dan really bending over backwards to HubbCo?
10. Mobius says:

    January 31, 2008 at 7:58 am

    joke