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When I logged on to my Facebook account early Tuesday morning, I was pretty sure I was hallucinating. My home screen was filled with odd factoids about my friends’ comings and goings. Mary had just broken up with her boyfriend. Bob was no longer single. Evan had written on Jill’s wall, “I hate you and your...
When after a few seconds it became evident that I was not in fact hallucinating, I clicked through my email, hoping desperately someone had figured a way out. Instead I found sixteen replies to the subject line “Facebook on CRACK...
...Like me, Facebook founder Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006, was probably a little shell-shocked when, over the course of the next two days, his company received half a million complaints about the new features. He quickly backtracked, issuing a mass apology and promising to implement better privacy controls. Facebook “really messed this one up,” he wrote, when it ignored the part of their mission, “helping people share information with the people they want to share it with...
...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...