After much badgering and media hype, this page has been making a few visits to Facebook, the social networking site turned cult. After reviewing a few pages (including those of neighbours and family members), I was left with feelings that the notoriety surrounding Facebook is unjustified, plus feelings of inadequacy in that my roster of friends doesn't number into the hundreds or thousands.
I don't get Facebook. I also don't get American Idol, Paris Hilton, NASCAR, Lost, Starbucks, IPod, Ultimate Fighting, Survivor, and many other expressions of today's popular culture. However, Facebook isn't as much an expression of pop-culture as it is an emerging self culture, propelled by a younger generation far more starved for attention than the Generation X that pioneered the Internet. To this page, counting up your friends and latching on to a shifting variety of cliques is like a life sentence in a virtual high school where you don't learn anything except how many friends you have and what cliques you belong to.
Certainly, there are exceptions to every rule, and someone might post something informative or meaningful to their Facebook page, but guess what? The site's rules state that anything posted on Facebook becomes property of Facebook. They own your stuff, they know you are, and they know where you live - it's a marketing agency's dream! With the reach that Facebook is gathering, it probably helps the FBI, CIA, CSIS, and Interpol sleep pretty soundly at night, too.
Not being all that moved by Facebook, this page isn't going anywhere. I'll stick my first generation MP3 player, my cellphone that doesn't have a camera, analog basic cable and good ol'fashioned e-mail. All of us a choice to be popular or to be right, and I think that my relatively faceless presence allows me to be right more often than not. I can wait until Facebook writes a more compelling chapter.
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Thank you for finding the words to why I haven't signed up yet, to why I have a visceral "ick" reaction to thinking about it. "Life sentence in a virtual high school" indeed.
I discovered last night that the NDP use it as an organizing tool. I suppose it might be good for that sort of thing, but I'm not sure how Jack Layton will react when I refuse his attempt to "friend" me.
No it doesn't..
It specifically states that the content is not consumed by posting it, and appears to be quite specific about who owns the content posted by its individual users: the users themselves. The copyright itself doesn't transfer, and the license to use the content in any way they want to expires the moment you remove the content from their website.
"If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content."
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