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26 Jun 09
Adam Crowe'Facebook management is acting like a group of cult leaders intent on changing the rest of us into more social, less private people than we might want to be. -- ...a cult-like group "offers considerable security to young people because it greatly simplifi
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12 Apr 09
Jason EnsorFacebook announced that it hit 200 million users today and Chief Operating Officer Cheryl Sandberg made a blog post describing some of the data mining that the company is doing of those connections. It's going to be great for advertisers, she says, it should also be very good for the rest of us as well.
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11 Apr 09
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Rem PalpittA theory: Facebook management is acting like a group of cult leaders intent on changing the rest of us into more social, less private people than we might want to be. Maybe all social networking services are trying to do that - but the way Facebook is goi
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09 Apr 09
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As one group amasses huge amounts of centralized power the way that Facebook has, it's a good idea to keep an eye on the psychological relationship between the site's owners and its users.
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Mathieu PlourdeA theory: Facebook management is acting like a group of cult leaders intent on changing the rest of us into more social, less private people than we might want to be. Maybe all social networking services are trying to do that - but the way Facebook is going about it feels particularly cult-like.
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Angela Randall*raised eyebrow* Well, that's a VERY interesting comparison. :D
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What's the end result of all these magical connections through relatively shallow communication? Advertising! It sounds pretty suspicious to me. It's because of the risk to free thought and independence that many of us prefer a vision of the social web's
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formerly free-thinking individuals used Facebook to turn themselves into players in an advertisement for a giant telecommunications company.
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