"Just when I thought I was out...they pulled me back in!"
Posted on 02/25/2013 1:45:29 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
Editor's note: Editor's note: Douglas Rushkoff writes a regular column for CNN.com. He is a media theorist and the author of the upcoming book "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now."
(CNN) -- I used to be able to justify using Facebook as a cost of doing business. As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it was OK to let other people do that, and I benefited from their behavior.
I can no longer justify this arrangement.
Today, I am surrendering my Facebook account, because my participation on the site is simply too inconsistent with the values I espouse in my work. In my upcoming book "Present Shock," I chronicle some of what happens when we can no longer manage our many online presences. I have always argued for engaging with technology as conscious human beings and dispensing with technologies that take that agency away.
Facebook is just such a technology. It does things on our behalf when we're not even there. It actively misrepresents us to our friends, and worse misrepresents those who have befriended us to still others. To enable this dysfunctional situation -- I call it "digiphrenia" -- would be at the very least hypocritical. But to participate on Facebook as an author, in a way specifically intended to draw out the "likes" and resulting vulnerability of others, is untenable.
Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does.
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I just post on my wife’s FB. As my wife of course.
You appear to assume that my security has anything to do with known personal information on FaceBook. My personal information is very limited on FB, they do offer multiple privacy settings, which I use.
Not sure why anyone would not use those.
I do not have two accounts with the same security question, sign in name or password.
However, I guess I can see some people might be repetitive.
Oh, well, I guess some people are just really paranoid
That’s what I like about it. I can keep in touch with friends and relatives that I would not normally have access to, including one cousin who lives in New Zealand. Actually, my sister doesn’t like FB, having never tried it. She had a stack of pictures she was showing to me one day, and she said that she had to make the rounds of relatives to show these pictures to. I suggested to her that she become a member of FB, and that’s when she put her nose in the air and said that she doesn’t do FB. Her loss.
Large grin. Thanks.
Most of the ID theft convicts got their clues from facebook.
EBay comes in high too.
I suppose that is true.
Mine are all so complicated, I’d have to them credit for the hack.
I don’t do EBay, I think the site is difficult and to many people get scammed.
oh well
“Would it be a good approximation to say that more than half of the accounts on Facebook and Twitter are fake?”
LOL! I never thought about it that way. But probably not, because most of the idiots, children and idiot children (that is, your standard Facebook marks) aren’t smart enough to think about the virtues of a fake account.
"Just when I thought I was out...they pulled me back in!"
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