Your Ex-CoWorkers Will Kill Facebook

Random BedHead Ed writes "Cory Doctorow writes about the downside of social networking on the Information Week site, with a focus on Facebook. While he starts with some minor but insightful quibbles, he quickly moves to a critique of the core of social networking: 'Imagine how creepy it would be to wander into a co-worker's cubicle and discover the wall covered with tiny photos of everyone in the office, ranked by 'friend' and 'foe,' with the top eight friends elevated to a small shrine decorated with Post-It roses and hearts.' Do you really want to add your boss and coworkers to your friends list? (And more to the point, do you really have a choice?)"

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this is old news...

[MrAndrews]

Facebook has already got this figured out... they're testing a new feature that lets you create alternate personalities to keep your various personalities away from each other...

Re:In Soviet Russia

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

And Job will find You!

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[Taco Meat]

I have again been the victim of moderator abuse http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=366293&cid=21424075 [slashdot.org] MOD me up to correct this injustice.

Too many moderators use Insightful as "I agree". Too many moderators fall for unoriginal groupthink and mod it up. People complain about trolls, but the REAL line noise on slashdot comes from the posts modded +4 or +5 that contribute NOTHING to an intelligent discussion. You can't filter that out, and even if you have your thresholds set high, you still see all the stupid stuff that you've already seen. That's why digg sucks and will never be anything but a place for 1338 high-skool haxx0rs. And it's happening here. So I used this account to call shenanigans on sucky posts. I getted modded into oblivion for pointing out truth. I guess that's how it goes. Most of you are a bunch of mindless sheeple.

One way to fix this: I think Slashdot should give IQ tests to all would-be moderators. That would ensure most of the ramshackle pseudo-intellectuals who get mod points would be replaced by people who can actually read the moderator guidelines and adhere to them.

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[cerberusss]

HAHAha, I've seen you post some insightful stuff man, that's why I tagged you as a friend. But otherwise, I'd never seen this post since you're modded DOWN, baby DOWN!!

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[Kozar_The_Malignant]

Whinging about moderation always gets modded down. Most people figure that out. The length of time it takes to figure it out is in roughly inverse proportion to their intelligence. There are some interesting aphorisms about repeating the same actions and expecting different outcomes that you might want to look up.

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[Anonymous Coward]

yeah man, thanks for replying. I am a paraiah here these days, it would seem. People get modded down for just replying to me. I am saitisfied with that course of events for now, except for when it bites one of my few friends.

I used to post insightful stuff. Then, one day, I started getting modded down for posting stuff I honestly meant as part of an intelligent discussion. Why? It ran contrary to the groupthink. So now I am protesting this.

Thanks for checking in, amigo. Had to log out just to post this. Turns out my Karma is pretty bad. Hope you don't get any on you.

Primary/Secondary social groups

[RealGrouchy]

If someone can't keep their primary and secondary groups separate, then they probably don't have many friends to worry about embarrassing themselves to.

- RG>