Google Maps personalization will hurt public space and engagement. – Slate Magazine.
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Facebook Wants To Kill Your Apps (and the Free Internet)
Recently Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s first website was discovered in a cache somewhere. It was from the late 90’s and little Mark was in 9th grade and learned how to make a HTML page and post to some defunct blogging … Read the rest
It’s Just A Website And You Work For Them
This guy nails it.

He wrote a good summary of many of the reasons I’ve been anti-facebook. It’s good to see even the hardcore users are starting to figure out they are being played.
Where’s Fahqfasse … Read the rest
Post Something Unpopular, Get A Visit From The Cops

Big brother is definitely watching you online in Britain these days…
Britain’s crackdown on Web comments sparks free-speech debate – latimes.com.… Read the rest
How Facebook Can Out Your Most Personal Secrets
Great discussion and article about two teens who were outed by Facebook even though they took great pains to control this using privacy features.
This is yet another example of Facebook’s facade showing – they are a data mining company … Read the rest
Junkies, Put Down That Facebook and Look In The Mirror

You are selling yourself short. You are worth more than that.
Have some pride!
Looking at friend and family pictures is not bad.
Seeing them in person and catching up is a much healthier … Read the rest
We Are Definitely Being Tracked

It’s been happening for years. Much of it was enabled using this technology you are looking at now (http, html, etc.).
But the big difference now is the slow but steady increase in shared data. Let me explain. … Read the rest
Facebook Sees The Shark
I have been observing the growth of Facebook in the social space for years now, and after growing more and more frustrated at the ‘facebook effect’ taking place online I’ve decided to start posting about it. My fear is that … Read the rest
What It Says About Us
Nailed it. Too much information just waving in the wind, waiting to be exploited over and over again. Screaming to be exploited, just for attention.
Stop Using Facebook To Login To Other Sites
If you love or hate Facebook, never visit or live on it – that’s fine by me. Waste your time however you see fit. But please don’t contribute to Facebook ruining the internet as I know it. Using a Facebook … Read the rest
Creepy Commerce
OK I’ve been ranting about this possibility for about three years now, and this is actually the primary reason why I have avoided Facebook: Walmart just bought their way into your Facebook ‘timeline’ data. Yep, all of your life’s … Read the rest
Watching Us Watching You
Data Mining Your Past, Present, & Future
Lots of privacy-politics news lately: First off our good buddies at Facebook want even more information, and will happily put it on a timeline and sell it to the highest bidder for you.

If you find this a little … Read the rest
The Shock Frontier
The future is now: Introducing the TV that watches you.
Gonna Need 200 Thousand Paper Cups
I love it. My manager Fahqfasse said I wish I could be so lucky to have 200k people show to my birthday bash. The best I can do is get 4 half-naked fake females with similar sounding fake names to … Read the rest
Robots Exist Among Us
Oh computers, how you both empower and enslave us at the same time!
This site has recently been overrun by fake users, most with google mail or a russian email address. These spambot accounts don’t seem to do anything yet, … Read the rest
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