Facebook is the Hotel California

Concerned citizens of the interwebs and fans of the overreaching analogy should check out this story at the New York Times.

Facebook, not content with telling all your friends about everything you buy, now wants to love you for ever and ever and ever.

Seriously, Zuckerberg, your college project is now officially just creepy.

Dan O'Connor

Dan is responsible for translating social media research into the analytic and conceptual frameworks which underpin the team’s product and service development. He is particularly interested in how social media has changed the ways in which people exchange information within networks, and the impact that these changes have had on traditionally top-down information systems, such as those prevalent within the health, education and NGO sectors, where he leads RMM’s activities.

Dan’s focus upon health and education stems from his background in academia: He has a PhD in History and, as well as being Head of Research at RMM, he is a member of faculty at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. He has published and lectured widely on the ethics of social media use within healthcare systems, and is involved in the application of social media in medical education at Johns Hopkins hospital.

Dan likes cooking, martinis, and irony. Frequently at the same time.

One response to “Facebook is the Hotel California”

  1. Ben

    So the “How to permanently delete your facebook account” group has almost 4,300 members and is steadily growing…

    It’s all too weird.

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