[Frameworks] Facebook

[Tim Halloran]

"The manifesto that helped launch the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the early 1990s championed a "civilisation of Mind in cyberspace" – a kind of worldwide metabrain. But personalised filters sever the synapses in that brain. Without knowing it, we may be giving ourselves a kind of global lobotomy instead."
 
Sums it up rather nicely. 
 
DEATH TO VIDEODROME--LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!
 
Tim
 


From: flick at flickharrison.com
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:48:01 -0700
To: frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Facebook


Okay, just got this off the nettime discussion list - which I wouldn't be on if it was on facebook.


More reason to avoid corporate data-mining toys like facebook.


(As for kids who don't like email?  Suck it up, digital natives - electronic toyland is NOT the whole universe).


http://tinyurl.com/3svy6n2






How the net traps us all in our own little bubbles




An invisible revolution has taken place is the way we use the net, but the increasing personalisation of information by search engines such as Google threatens to limit our access to information and enclose us in a self-reinforcing world view, writes Eli Pariser in an extract from The Filter Bubble










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