Missing Word Round
By Dan O'Connor September 6th, 2007
In Networking · Social media · Stories
What’s missing from Om Malik’s otherwise sound description of Facebook’s new-and-improved-if-by-”improved”-you-mean-”ruined” public-facing search funtion:
This move transforms Facebook from being a social network to being quasi-White Pages of the Web.”
Answer after the jump…
Yes, of course, it’s fascist:
This move transforms Facebook from being a social network to being quasi-fascist White Pages of the Web.
C’mon, if you’re going to use the word “quasi”, you’ve got to follow it up with a “fascist”…
But, srsly folks… I was just about to join Facebook (don’t look at me like I just figured out how to program a VCR, I was busy K? Thx. Anyway, now I’m not so sure… Thoughts?
1 Matt Rebeiro // Sep 10, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Well, since you have to opt-in to face the public I think Mark “Hitler” Zuckerberg is still a way off becoming the supreme overlord of the universe.
Also, one can alter all of their security settings on Facebook to the point that only you and your mother can see *those* pictures of your debauched weekend in The Algarve.