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To be or not to be...
On Facebook
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a flipbook for Film260by Laura MacDonald
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“An estimated 93% of millennials use Facebook.”
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Josh Sanburn - “I’m Not On Facebook and I Don’t Regret It - Yet”
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and yet “Facebook is not the Internet. It's just one website...
...and it comes with a price.”
Image by DavidErickson [flickr]Douglas Rushkoff - “Why I’m Quitting Facebook”
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“The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product...
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...and we are its workers.”Douglas Rushkoff - “Why I’m Quitting Facebook”
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“Corporations used to have to do research to assemble our consumer profiles...
...now we do it for them.” Douglas Rushkoff - “Why I’m Quitting Facebook”
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We know this, yet every time Facebook offers us new functionality, we dive back in.
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“[With Timeline] it’s increasingly about individuals connecting with themselves rather than their friends...
It’s now a thoughtful chronicle of one’s life that
just happens to be public.”
Josh Sanburn - “I’m Not On Facebook and I
Don’t Regret It - Yet”
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And now there’s the Graph Search tool, allowing ‘friends’ to easily search through every piece of
information you’ve ever shared.Image by author
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“The more accessible our Facebook information becomes...
...the less obscurity protects our interests.”
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Woodrow Hartzog & Evan Selinger - “Obscurity: A Better Way to Think About Your Data Than 'Privacy”
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And obscurity can be a
good thing.
“Obscurity is a protective state that can further a number of goals, such as autonomy, self-fulfillment, socialization, and
relative freedom from the abuse of power.”
Woodrow Hartzog & Evan Selinger - “Obscurity: A Better Way to Think About Your Data Than 'Privacy”
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So why not avoid Facebook altogether?
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After all, “It can be hard enough just getting through
each day...
much less extensively
documenting it all.”
Josh Sanburn - “I’m Not On Facebook and I Don’t Regret It - Yet”
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But what happens when you start missing birthdays, parties, events because you’re no longer part of
the conversation?
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“I feel like a generational outlier simply because I don’t
participate in the one thing I believe defines my generation:
Facebook.”Josh Sanburn - “I’m Not On Facebook and I Don’t Regret It - Yet”
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And abstaining from Facebook is
increasingly seen as nearly as creepy as
Facebook itself.
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“The person with no Facebook presence now finds him or herself in much the same position as, going back a bit, a sweaty person who, having lowered his voice in the pharmacy, requested both chloroform and quicklime.”
Catherine Bennet - “Not On Facebook? What Kind of Sad Sicko Are You?”
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“Young people in particular need to anticipate the reaction of a future employer who discovers, with incredulity that gives way only to suspicion and distrust, that an otherwise impressive candidate has recorded nothing online regarding their accumulation of friends, social life or holidays in fun destinations.”
Catherine Bennet - “Not On Facebook? What Kind of Sad Sicko Are You?”
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“The warnings of Facebook sceptics are drowned by internet pundits proclaiming the backward-looking futility of resistance.”
Catherine Bennet - “Not On Facebook? What Kind of Sad Sicko Are You?”
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Maintaining a Facebook page will always be a tightrope walk between revealing too much and showing too
little...
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And we have to be conscious - verging on paranoid, possibly -
tracks
we leave.
of the
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