Oh my lord.

[Doktor Howl]

We ache to show each other how much fun we're having,
how authentic we are.

We're as authentic as Taylor Swift, as real as the crops we grow on Farmville, as relevant as our latest tweet.

If the power ever went out everwhere for 10 minutes, we'd all cease to exist.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

We ache to show each other how much fun we're having,
how authentic we are.

We're as authentic as Taylor Swift, as real as the crops we grow on Farmville, as relevant as our latest tweet.

If the power ever went out everwhere for 10 minutes, we'd all cease to exist.

I have a new appreciation for natural disasters.

[Doktor Howl]

We ache to show each other how much fun we're having,
how authentic we are.

We're as authentic as Taylor Swift, as real as the crops we grow on Farmville, as relevant as our latest tweet.

If the power ever went out everwhere for 10 minutes, we'd all cease to exist.

I have a new appreciation for natural disasters.

So do I.  I can put up a sympathy page for them, which people will "Like", which goes a hell of a long way to preventing cholera and starvation among the victims of whatever it was.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

We ache to show each other how much fun we're having,
how authentic we are.

We're as authentic as Taylor Swift, as real as the crops we grow on Farmville, as relevant as our latest tweet.

If the power ever went out everwhere for 10 minutes, we'd all cease to exist.

I have a new appreciation for natural disasters.

So do I.  I can put up a sympathy page for them, which people will "Like", which goes a hell of a long way to preventing cholera and starvation among the victims of whatever it was.

when I get invites to those, I automatically post on their page how useless the page is.

[Jenne]

I've called it Facefuck for a long, long time.  And well, the description still holds. 

[The Wizard Joseph]

We ache to show each other how much fun we're having,
how authentic we are.

Rather than being satisfied by the experience itself,
we have become collectors of experiences.

A butterfly, mounted on a pin, kept under glass
A label underneath it reads "23 people Like this".



Another link suggests that we "share" this experience.




I'm guilty of it too. I feel like I need to distinguish myself from this sea of people in order to maintain a sense of self & identity. And facebook is a theater designed for that. These days, if you don't have a facebook account, you may miss the party invitation altogether. I won't disagree that facebook has helped me connect and stay in contact with a lot of wonderful human beings who would otherwise be outside my peripheral vision. But it's also a trap, it is meant to confuse the experience with the image of the experience.

I wonder if it's a matter of "giving people what they want" that made it so popular.  I mean there are plenty of dirty head tricks in the experience such as the "like" effect/Icon being you symbolically also liking FB.  I get some stuff like that, but think it's just (ruthlessly) capitalizing on an instinct people already have for connecting to other people.  It can be abused of course,and I can see such things accelerating and strengthening the social walls we already put up with a new layer of technical costs and knowledge.  What really disturbed me about the video was getting younglings to get used to being tracked while having meaningless fun. They'll over time associate checking in with at least a mild pleasantness.  May also lead to a social world context where dropping off the map or not having a good time are a fast way to get snubbed.

[Doktor Howl]

We ache to show each other how much fun we're having,
how authentic we are.

We're as authentic as Taylor Swift, as real as the crops we grow on Farmville, as relevant as our latest tweet.

If the power ever went out everwhere for 10 minutes, we'd all cease to exist.

I have a new appreciation for natural disasters.

So do I.  I can put up a sympathy page for them, which people will "Like", which goes a hell of a long way to preventing cholera and starvation among the victims of whatever it was.

when I get invites to those, I automatically post on their page how useless the page is.

Go the other way.

Praise them to DEATH for their monumental humanitarian achievement.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

We ache to show each other how much fun we're having,
how authentic we are.

We're as authentic as Taylor Swift, as real as the crops we grow on Farmville, as relevant as our latest tweet.

If the power ever went out everwhere for 10 minutes, we'd all cease to exist.

I have a new appreciation for natural disasters.

So do I.  I can put up a sympathy page for them, which people will "Like", which goes a hell of a long way to preventing cholera and starvation among the victims of whatever it was.

when I get invites to those, I automatically post on their page how useless the page is.

Go the other way.

Praise them to DEATH for their monumental humanitarian achievement.

LMAO, ok, I have to see the reactions to that. Will do.

[Cramulus]

Praise them to DEATH for their monumental humanitarian achievement.

that's fucking brilliant

[Doktor Howl]

Praise them to DEATH for their monumental humanitarian achievement.

that's fucking brilliant

Some days, I just lie in bed and dream of ways to fuck with people.  It's not so much brilliance as persistance.

[Subtract Eight!]

I lost my internet service for a month.

I don't have a landline or cell.



I was alone for a month.

Nobody not even my childhood friends knew what I was doing.

I was watching movies and composing music.


Internet back on, oh wow hello everyone.

[Doktor Howl]

Good thing this technology won't be abused or anything.   

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Good thing this technology won't be abused or anything.   

Deep down, you know everyone has your best interests at heart. How could this go wrong? The world is full of loving, caring people who only want to see beautiful things happen to us all.

I have faith that this will be a wonderful addition to our technological growth if we just give it a chance.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

[Disco Pickle]

soooooo..  no one else got the whole "Jewish people going to a "camp" and getting "tagged" with identifiers, particularly voluntarily", as really fucking creepy?



...no one?


The other implications are really, nothing more than the natural progression of RFID tech, no matter how fucking absurd.