Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Another ally in facebook battle

Further to my comments about social networking sites,I see that I have one ally in Zoe Williams writing in today's Guardian

What does it mean, to have 183 Facebook friends? That you will waste a small amount of time communicating with them, irregularly, or ignore them and feel a tiny amount of social guilt.





What ever happened to face to face contact or even email,telephone?????

The most flagrantly and frequently overegged assertion is for the importance of cyber-social networking. MySpace was the frontrunner here, Craigslist was the MySpace for grownups. Controversy and cash accrued to both enterprises in tandem - would MySpace take responsibility for old people pretending to be young in order to communicate with young people? All cats are grey in the dark, and most cats in cyberspace are 17.

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