About Fear Of Missing Out.

"His generation has grown up in an era of blurred personal boundaries and competitive notoriety, with technological tools that promote spontaneity over thoughtfulness and cleverness over civility."

A lot of great links about the integrity of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's recent stumbles.

"Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook"

Yeah, it's that bad.

"Facebook originally earned its core base of users by offering them simple and powerful controls over their personal information. As Facebook grew larger and became more important, it could have chosen to maintain or improve those controls. Instead, it's slowly but surely helped itself — and its advertising and business partners — to more and more of its users' information, while limiting the users' options to control their own information."

I remember when the term "web" meant "connectivity", not "snare".

I sometimes wonder if the Face-suits and Google-moguls are basically betting on a "privacy is SO nineties" attitude.

Really? Wow. Intriguing.

I don't know who Cody Brown is, but this is interesting stuff.

Doesn't that headline read like a grade school insult?

Interesting article on the personal and cultural effects of online "ambient awareness".

"Horatio thinks he saw a ghost."

Beacon 2.0?

For defripping.

"Whispering endlessly into a room crowded with everyone I’ve ever met while simultaneously being badgered by evil robotic clone versions of those same people that insistently try to trick me into buy things from Overstock.com HAS NEVER BEEN SO MUCH FUN!

Score one for privacy!

An interesting article about the dark side of social networking (i.e., "cyber-bullying").