Over here at the PrincipiaDiscordia Blog, we’re in the business of raising awareness about encroaching Bureaucracy. One of the most sneaky things about Bureaucracy is the way that it presents itself. It seems like a logical choice in response to all the disorder that’s going on. And it seems FUN to play with the cool new toys that our culture has made for us.

Web 2.0 applications like Facebook, Digg, and Wikipedia  seem like great ideas, don’t they? Sure, they facilitate communication, they make it easy to access information, and they are a “nesting ground” for web communities. But we’ve gotta be careful - control is often achieved through the illusion of freedom. Digg.com, for example, is a sort of web popularity contest. You can “Digg” something on the web, and if others like it, they’ll digg it too. Digg.com then organizes sites by how much they’ve been dugg. But if we pay attnetion to digg as a real measure of “what’s going on” in cyberculture, don’t we run the risk of homogenizing it? We’ve gotta be careful.

Facebook in particular is in the pocket of some rather sinister and shady characters who do NOT have personal freedom and the public’s best interest in mind.

If you’re a member of Facebook, do yourself a favor and check out this scary video: The Truth Behind Facebook 

Let that be a lesson to include a big helping of misinformation in any information you provide about yourself.

Because we can’t stop “them” from collecting public data.
But we CAN pollute the signal-to-noise ratio until it’s no longer a useful place to harvest.

This article talks in depth about the Evils of Facebook. Reposted for your convenience is some notes on its founders…

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