Facebook is…

[a_cubed]

Please complete with just one sentence “Facebook is…”.

We have some interesting results from Japanese students and I’m interested in gathering thoughts from other people.

Current Mood:  curious

Originally published at blog.a-cubed.info

Comments

[ggreig]

...an unscrupulous company that exploits peer pressure to spy on its users, trades the private information they reveal, and regularly, and as policy, pushes the bounds of legality.

I'd be interested in how an overview of the responses turns out.

[meepfrog.livejournal.com]

I'd agree with Gavin on that...but add that it /is/ good for keeping in touch with people you don't see meatside anymore.

[clarehooper.livejournal.com]

Personally: Not useless, now I've figured out a way to get along with the bugger.
As a web science type: Intriguing. And worrying.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

... complete and utter bollocks.

We call it Farcebook for a reason.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

...somebody else's problem.

I don't have enough "friends" that I think it would be useful to me and I'm withdrawn enough (NNEET = Nearly a NEET, not far off hikikomori status) that exposing myself in public as Facebook is designed to do would worry me. I also don't have enough energy or concentration to maintain a consistent fake Facebook persona for the shits and giggles.

[danjite.livejournal.com]

All of the above.

It is an essential tool for keeping up with the younger generation of my family and of local invite only goings on- and a foul-cesspit info-capitalism.

[dan-golem.livejournal.com]

By a curious coincidence I have just sat through a webinar from the Chartered Institute of Marketing whose title completed that sentence ... the future of marketing?

[vivdunstan.livejournal.com]

A waste of time.

I'm astounded at how much time some people spend on it. Quite boggled. I use it as little as possible. It has a role in keeping in touch with some members of my family, and making contact with others with my 1 in a million neurological disease. But generally I think it's a time sink.

[ggreig]

Since everyone else who objects to its behaviour and has commented here still seems to use it, I thought I'd clarify that I don't. I've never signed up for Facebook because their attitude to privacy has been toxic since early on. I suppose at least they've been fairly open about that and just relied on people not caring. As a result, I'm sure there will be data about me on there helpfully provided by other people.

[tobyaw]

Facebook is… slimy.

I trust websites from companies where I am their customer. With Facebook, we are assets to be sold to their real customers, the advertisers.