The Social Engineer

A place where people go to listen to the rantings of Sanford Dickert

Quote reblogged from Buzz Andersen

Facebook runs on a very stiff, crude model of what people are like. It herds everybody — friends, co-workers, romantic partners, that guy who lived on your block but moved away after fifth grade — into the same big room. It smooshes together your work self and your home self, your past self and your present self, into a single generic extruded product. It suspends the natural process by which old friends fall away over time, allowing them to build up endlessly, producing the social equivalent of liver failure. On Facebook, there is one kind of relationship: friendship, and you have it with everybody. You’re friends with your spouse, and you’re friends with your plumber.

Lev Grossman’s profile on Mark Zuckerberg for Time

I think this is the best analysis of Facebook I’ve ever read. “The social equivalent of liver failure” is a genius phrase.

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  Which is why I am thinking about “de-friending” people, especially peeps from my elementary and junior high school days....
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