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Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Say "No" to Facebook


Resolution: Share Less on FB


An interesting fake New Year's  resolution posted by Jon Carroll on San Francisco Chronicle's website today. The full excerpt:

Share less on Facebook: It's not just you and your friends; it's this large moneymaking device designed to suck dollars from your wallet. It thinks of you as just a little tunnel in the gigantic data mine it's running.
Whatever you did before Facebook, do that again. E-mail without intermediaries. Text without subtext. Facebook is the wrong model for community building, and one day it will all fall apart. But you'll be somewhere else. Good.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/carroll/article/My-New-Year-s-resolutions-for-you-4158511.php#ixzz2GkyJtp8e