Mark Zuckerberg
Hello there, boys and girls.
I came across this quote in an article in www.Washingtonpost.com of 6/3/08:
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has argued that his Web site makes human relationships more “efficient.”
Sure, he said in a speech last year, two friends “can communicate offline if one of them picks up the phone to call the other, or if they take some time to hang out, or if they randomly bump into each other.
But these methods are all synchronous — they’re kind of inefficient.
In order for them to work, both people have to be paying attention to each another at the same time.
“There’s a better way to do this; and on Facebook, it’s simple.
These people can read each other’s profiles any time they want to see new information about each other.
They can look at each other’s media, and they can send each other messages.
On Facebook these real connections become more efficient.
People get more value out of all their relationships.”
Is anyone out there thinking what I’m thinking?
Let me tell you what I’m thinking.
First off, I had a very physical reaction.
I scared the dogs and the cat went flying into the cellar.
You might say I was overwhelmed with outrage.
The quote came out of an article titled “Sudden Disconnect Over Social Networking Deal,” by Peter Whoriskey, and the context is about a failed deal between Google and Facebook to have connecting social networking sites.
Now, let’s go back to the quote.
Friendship, face-to-face contact – inefficient?
Are you kidding me?
Getting more value from your relationships?
Come again?
How in Higher Power’s name can relationships relegated to a computer screen be “better” than relationships where people can see, hear, smell, touch, and taste one another?
Mr. Zuckerberg would evidently doom us to a life of isolation inoculated only by the words on the screen, which, as we all know, are the basis of a modern day fantasy land embroiled in lies, deceptions, and a “reality” that defies truth.
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