Comments on: Facebook's Sock On The Door http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/19/419-facebooks-sock-on-the-door/ The economics of digital content Sun, 19 May 2013 00:21:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jed Brandt http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/19/419-facebooks-sock-on-the-door/#comment-86680 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:22:30 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/12/19/419-facebooks-sock-on-the-door/#comment-86680 Facebook is an excellent metaphor for capitalism. The same way it’s peculiar that oil is “owned” by someone, or water. Now our social lives, personal and work, are forced onto digital mediation — then some billionaire asshole claims “ownership” of the means of communication and exchange. If you don’t like it, leave. Except like the banking system, you can’t opt out. Not an option.

The billionaires are laughing it up. Not for long. Occupy everything.

]]> By: Frank Reed http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/19/419-facebooks-sock-on-the-door/#comment-86679 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:18:02 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/12/19/419-facebooks-sock-on-the-door/#comment-86679 Well said. Trouble is that these people are getting rich while displaying this sophomoric view of life so they won’t change. Their argument would likely be that “Well, 800 million people seem to find our worldview to be just fine so …..”

I have learned to never expect much from Facebook the company. They are mostly folks with limited life experience but a lot of power. A scary combo for sure.

Facebook the product is my call. As long as I use it for real connection that matters to me and those important to me that’s all I can ever be concerned with. If I expect the Facebook crew to get what my life is like as compared to theirs I will be disappointed time and time again.

]]> By: Martijn Wolters http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/19/419-facebooks-sock-on-the-door/#comment-86678 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:35:02 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/12/19/419-facebooks-sock-on-the-door/#comment-86678 If you don’t like it for any reason, like this page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Timeline-Sucks/333186903361593

]]> By: Bruce Wayne http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/19/419-facebooks-sock-on-the-door/#comment-86677 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:19:04 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/12/19/419-facebooks-sock-on-the-door/#comment-86677 This is a great post. Could not agree more….Thank you for pointing out Facebooks hubris and lack of sensitivity to the very “Community” that has given it the ability to generate billions in revenue and possibly one of the largest stock flotations in tech history….Maybe the time has come for a new wave of Social Apps that competes with the existing ones that take the “Communities” values for granted

]]> By: binarylife http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/19/419-facebooks-sock-on-the-door/#comment-86676 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:34:59 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/12/19/419-facebooks-sock-on-the-door/#comment-86676 “a vital curator of human culture and memory”. now that’s creepy. Frankly, I hope we all give facebook too much credit and that in 15 years it will not be remembered as anything more than an early internet era craze.

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