Creepy 2020

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Wed Jul 1 19:53:25 EDT 2009


And what's your Facebook username?

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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://barncard.com


2009/7/1 Randall Reetz <randall at randallreetz.com>

> I still think it ironic that we are intolerant of governments and
> corporations when they engage in behaviors we excuse in our selves.  How
> many people go to church or get their kids in a soccer league or enroll them
> in a private school specifically to gain access to the "right" group of
> potential customers?  FaceBook et al are just providing to that same demand.
>  Yes it is creepy... how humans act towards their "friends".   Everyone
> wants the "networking" advantages afforded by a company that mines personal
> data.  Nobody likes to know how that data is aquired when it comes to their
> own identity.  Really creepy is the vailed astonishment expressed as the
> nessisary "wizard of oz" is revealed to be just what our greed demands of
> him.  The perfect reflection of us!  I live in Palo Alto, and have listened
> in on hundreds of facebook employee cafe conversations.  Souls not required.
>  It is one thing to be a slimy insurance salesman... quite another to
> institutionalize and automate this most tragic of human tendancies... and to
> make a killing doing so.  The edifice that is socil networking software
> tends to depersonalize and infrastructurealize sleezyness.  "Hey, everyone
> is driving drunk!", becomes, "If we arent supposed to drive drunk, why is
> there a beer tap right here on the dash board?"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Lynn Fredricks" <lfredricks at proactive-intl.com>
> To: "'How to use Revolution'" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: 7/1/2009 3:14 PM
> Subject: Creepy 2020
>
> > We seem to be assuming that Facebook is automagically digging
> > into your address book, when it could just be finding you in
> > reverse from people that have already shared. This would
> > actually seem more efficient, since while you may not share
> > your address book, somebody else that knows you probably has...
>
> This creepy privacy invasion thread makes me think of the various ways
> Google snaps up information - by car and of course by satelite. Maybe in a
> few years we will see robot wars between the Google Car, Yahoo Refuse
> Digger
> and Facebook Roto Rooter - all fighting each other to get the last bit of
> our private information :-)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lynn Fredricks
> President
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