http://motherboard.tv/2011/1/14/facebook-too-shall-pass
We're leaving Facebook by the droves, we're terrified of what the website is doing to our daily lives, how it's using our data to create the most fine-grained graph of the world's personal connections, and utterly perplexed, and, especially after the past few years, a little bit worried, that it could possibly be valued at $50 billion. _It is, after all, just a website._
JK. We're not really leaving Facebook. And most of our concerns about the site - ranging from privacy controls to its valuation - tend to flitter away as fast as your News Feed. Like our best friendships, Facebook is forever.
And yet, it _is_ just a website, and one as susceptible to the viccictudes of the open web as any other giant web site before it. At least that's Douglass Rushkoff's point in
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JK. We're not really leaving Facebook. And most of our concerns about the site - ranging from privacy controls to its valuation - tend to flitter away as fast as your News Feed. Like our best friendships, Facebook is forever.
And yet, it _is_ just a website, and one as susceptible to the viccictudes of the open web as any other giant web site before it. At least that's Douglass Rushkoff's point in