Creepy 2020

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Wed Jul 1 19:53:51 EDT 2009


I was joking

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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
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2009/7/1 stephen barncard <stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com>

> And what's your Facebook username?
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> Stephen Barncard
> San Francisco
> http://barncard.com
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> 2009/7/1 Randall Reetz <randall at randallreetz.com>
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> 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
>> Paradigma Software
>> http://www.paradigmasoft.com
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