Facebook and the ongoing demise of anonymity

The recent upswell of interest in Facebook and other social networking sites has taken us one step closer to the all-knowing and all-seeing social panopticon

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Posted by metavalent  on  03/31  at  01:08 AM

somehow, this post strikes me as atypically uncritical and to some extent, even aloof. in one breath, the very concept of anonymity is seemingly lamented as an endangered species; in the next, it's apparently cast as an anachronism. maybe i'm missing something, but methinks george is possibly indulging in a rare moment of, "don't make me think too hard about this one, i've made my choice and now i have to live with it."

"Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal." - Robert Heinlein

Posted by  on  08/25  at  09:20 AM

Fantastic article, very well said. Facebook has definitely changed the face of the earth - but is it necessarily in a good way? I need to pass this article on to a few friends (and my wife!).

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