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Why I Hate Facebook by Tom Hodgkinson

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Tuesday January 15, 2008 10:18

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Tom Hodgkinson has written quite an interesting article about Facebook, published in last Monday's G2. It begins:

I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on. Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?

And does Facebook really connect people? Doesn't it rather disconnect us, since instead of doing something enjoyable such as talking and eating and dancing and drinking with my friends, I am merely sending them little ungrammatical notes and amusing photos in cyberspace, while chained to my desk? A friend of mine recently told me that he had spent a Saturday night at home alone on Facebook, drinking at his desk. What a gloomy image. Far from connecting us, Facebook actually isolates us at our workstations.

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Comments (12 of 12)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	I feel so marginalised	radical	Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:59
2	Are you feeling alright?	Steve	Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:47
3	Living vicariously	Hank	Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:15
4	combine this with all the other services you use and you get......	SpookyMulder	Tue Jan 15, 2008 16:16
5	Facebook in news - Scrabulous, Irish HQ? German investment..,	hmmmmm	Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:25
6	if popular websites were people...	wageslave	Fri Jan 18, 2008 01:45
7	Maybe the Guardian are as snobby as AFP	Love Coincidencs!	Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:37
8	From BoreMe.com	Mark C	Mon Feb 04, 2008 22:38
9	Face to face with Facebook	Pollytix	Mon Feb 04, 2008 23:42
10	What a get our of jail free statement	Mark C	Tue Feb 05, 2008 09:50
11	Facebook criticised for copyright stance	polly tix	Fri Feb 08, 2008 04:02
12	Issues of a totally different kind	Benji Hardcore	Wed Jan 07, 2009 17:35

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