By Dan O'Connor on September 6, 2007
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?
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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.
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.