Goodbye Facebook

#1

Post by nicholalexander » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 2:10 PM UTC

Goodbye Facebook
theaboutness.com

Re: Goodbye Facebook

#2

Post by ojbyrne » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 2:50 PM UTC

My girlfriend also deleted her account immediately after watching the movie. If there's 2 people, there must be more.

Re: Goodbye Facebook

#3

Post by smoyer » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 2:59 PM UTC

Wow ... that makes me want to sign up with Facebook just so I can join the "delete my account" club.

Re: Goodbye Facebook

#4

Post by sudonim » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 3:00 PM UTC

Facebook is an amazing product. However, the more facebook unravels their plans for the future, and the more we learn about their past, the less I trust them.

We can write to hacker news with our articles, bitching and moaning about facebook, or quietly build an alternative social network with the values we want.

Re: Goodbye Facebook

#5

Post by stcredzero » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 3:00 PM UTC

The degree to which China is not connected in the visualization at the bottom, I find worrisome. Why? Because connection and commerce are the true foundations of peace. By that thinking, visualization is not a good omen. (Maybe we should just chalk it up to language?)

Re: Goodbye Facebook

#6

Post by sfphotoarts » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 3:11 PM UTC

sudonim wrote: post #4

Facebook is an amazing product. However, the more facebook unravels their plans for the future, and the more we learn about their past, the less I trust them. We can write to hacker news with our articles, bitching and moaning about facebook, or quietly build an alternative social network with the values we want.

Or, manage just fine having a real-life social network, and not feel the need to replicate it online.

Re: Goodbye Facebook

#7

Post by nhangen » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 3:13 PM UTC

Strange, I was a FB hater until I watched the movie, at which point I wanted to find more reasons to like it (though the releasing of phone #'s and address data didn't help).

My wife, on the other hand, liked Zuck less by the end of the movie, even though she knew it was mostly sensationalized. It still hasn't changed her FB behavior.

Re: Goodbye Facebook

#8

Post by _3ex7 » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 3:14 PM UTC

This movie is not about Facebook. If you watch the behind-the-scenes documentary on the 2nd disk, they even tell you this. Facebook, in the context of this movie, was just a vessel to deliver a story about building something big and conflict. Much as a tortilla chip is a vessel for nacho cheese.

Re: Goodbye Facebook

#9

Post by bad_user » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 3:18 PM UTC

sudonim wrote: post #4

Facebook is an amazing product. However, the more facebook unravels their plans for the future, and the more we learn about their past, the less I trust them. We can write to hacker news with our articles, bitching and moaning about facebook, or quietly build an alternative social network with the values we want.

     Jacob: I'm kinda right in the middle of a thing 
                right now, but can I text you later? 
     Girl at Club: Can you what? 
     Jacob: Are you online at all? 
     Girl at Club: I have no idea what you're talking about. 
     Jacob: How do I get a hold of you? 
     Girl at Club: You come find me. 
     Jacob: That sounds... exhausting.

Re: Goodbye Facebook

#10

Post by seanalltogether » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 3:29 PM UTC

I don't believe that facebook is the technological fad that tech pundits want them to be. They have infected the infrastructure of the web in ways that livejournal and myspace never could.