The Disturbing Death of Social Media

The Peculiar and Disturbing Death of Social Media

In which we witness a long-awaited and not-so-pretty demise of a bullshit idea.

I'm pretty damned tired of Facebook and G+ and whateverthefuckissocialmedia.com. I have a closed loop of friends that I like to check in on and post snarky comments and I jump at the chance to post a cool zombie movie clip. Other than that, there really is no value in this enterprise.

Your Terms & Rights May Vary

Never trust someone who ends their sentence in a question.

You Are Shedding Data Everywhere

The New Data State

Big Data is here to help you, starting right now.

It's an exceptional report authored by John D. Podesta, a senior White House adviser. Potentially in a ploy to distract from the egregious NSA violations committed in the previous hour, the report is notable in that it has the imprimatur of a White House that is arguably, the most tech-friendly ever. Exploring privacy and data regulations in the marketplace, it states:

Facebook Bitchslap

Facebook. O, Facebook.

I recently had a conversation on Facebook that blew my mind.

It was with a friend of some years and we generally get along great, if remotely. The argument was over an incessant, plague-ridden meme that summarizes Facebook's level of discourse: it was binary, it had photoshopped pictures and it was constructed by someone who has an agenda.

The argument wasn't really the part that blew my mind. It was the insane opposition from someone who is rather intelligent. It seems, I had to agree with their point of view or I was wrong. And deserving of very strong language. I was even called a REPUBLICAN *gay gasp*.

I think there's a much deeper thing going on here. I believe that we have been given this amazingly powerful tool (The Internet) and it allows us to be incredibly powerful (Self-publishing). For sure, I am on the same level of the publishing accessibility spectrum as the New York Times.

But not really.