Word: facebooked
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...each recited word during English 10a, “Major British Writers” lectures. The hair bounces over both the heroic might of Beowulf and the lyrical beauty of Herrick as he reads aloud in both Old and Middle English. Soon you'll want to join the facebook group "Actually, Gordon Teskey Should Narrate in Middle English for the Rest of My Life." Most importantly, Teskey always boils texts down to what Harvard students pine after: sex. Just a few words from the Professor on the true nature of "spirit" would send any sixth grader into...
...Facebook lets you select what information it puts into the news feeds, which has largely quelled the uprising. But I’m still uneasy...
Privacy doesn’t seem to quite capture the problem; as a Facebook representative noted, the feeds “do not give out any information that wasn’t already visible.” What is so disturbing about the new Facebook is not that the information it shares is private—no one imagines that anything they post is really private—but that information itself has become so ubiquitous. To put it another way, I care less about other people seeing what I’m doing than being forced to see what...
...Facebook bothers me because it implements all too well Zuckerberg’s guiding principle, that the free flow of information is in everyone’s best interest. “Information flow is an important issue,” Zuckerberg writes in a Facebook group devoted to the subject, “because our ability to solve other problems is generally limited by our ability to communicate with other people.” More information helps us make better choices. If I am looking for a new roommate, every detail about Bill helps me make a fairer assessment...
...Facebook, always an experiment in open communication, attempted this week to expand its position. The venture was unsettling, but not wholly unproductive. Millions asked how information impacts choice. Zuckerberg grappled publicly with what the “free flow of information” really means. Having been deluged in overwhelmingly negative input, it would be a sad irony if the Facebook did not now scale back. They have the information—but will they make the right choice...