Some gorgeous writing and analysis from Ivan Pope today:
The Web is something rich and strange and Facebook not something rich and strange.
Back in 1988 before the Web arrived we used to play a lot of image based games around the internet, passing encoded images back and forth and basically working hard to make some sense of this dark network where no-one could see anyone else. From that point on for me the internet and the web have been a rich and strange playground where each new person, each new application, each new network, added something unknowable to the sum total of where we worked and played. Facebook doesn't really do any of that. It's a nice tidy 'burb where everyone has more or less the same house, same garden, same car, same attitude.
Sure, we can all add friends and join networks and add applications, but it's always clear that there is no curtain behind which strange things might lurk. Facebook is the uber controlled environment - useful and wanted by many, but not pregnant with potential.
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so, believe it or not, i want you to make sure everything is gonna be fine over the edge here and there
Posted by: proofreading | February 17, 2011 at 07:42 AM