On the decline of the internet

[coldlikedeath]

hannelore_k waxes thus:

Facebook has destroyed the internet as we knew it.

Context says “that’s all I wrote, and it’s bloody true.”

Comments

[namey]

Namey likes this.

[rabidsamfan]

Entirely too true. The internet that was going to be a great source of information has turned into an echo chamber, thanks to facebook and google "personalizing" everything -- and then making a profit selling the information they've gathered about you. (Read "The Filter Bubble" and see if you ever look at your google results the same way again.) You can't even look at at government website without facebook wanting a cookie anymore. Feh!

[rimspace]

127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com

Such a simple line, and yet so liberating...

[rabidsamfan]

How do I make it work? And what does it do? *looks very interested, but is not always good at tech*

[kauricat]

http://www.davidtan.org/simple-block-websites-computers/

[holidaylights]

Well, destroyed and then rebuilt.

[someidiot]

In its own image.

[greenlily]

I don't know. I'd argue that Facebook makes it easier for people who would like to use the Internet for purely social purposes, to do that while leaving a better signal-to-noise ratio for the rest of us in the informational zones.

[littlebluedog]

Eyup.

[ordinaryfool]

Plus, I don't think anyone is forced to have a Facebook account if he or she doesn't want one....

[erunion]

I wish that were true. My friends were so troubled about my lack of a facebook that they went and made one for me. Why? Because I was apparently a social recluse - just because I didn't have one.

I would be surprised if my experience here were common, but it really didn't help my opinion of facebook.

[coldlikedeath]

it's sort of good for journalism too but oh god facebook. fuckbook. fuck you zuckerberg.