How Facebook is Killing Your Authenticity - steve's blog - 0 views
stevecheney.posterous.com/k-is-killing-your-authenticity
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This latest push by Facebook to tie people to one identity across the interwebs is very troublesome.
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The problem with tying internet-wide identity to a broadcast network like Facebook is that people don’t want one normalized identity, either in real life, or virtually.
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Face it, authenticity goes way down when people know their 700 friends, grandma, and 5 ex-girlfriends are tuning in each time they post something on the web.
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Facebook’s insistence that you have one identity across the web is both short-sighted and asinine, and people I talk to are starting to realize this. Fact is, one social network will not rule the web... People are simply way too social to allow that.
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Steve Cheney "Facebook is no longer a social network.... Facebook is really a huge broadcast platform." http://bit.ly/f1H60B
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Not MENA related, but given the ubiquity of FB in MENA, and the identity questions raised, troubling.