Friday, September 08, 2006
Generation Y & Facebook's Falling Out
OMG alert the media and ring the alarm like Beyonce due to something senseless because Facebook has done us wrong:
"A new feature called "News Feed" instantaneously broadcasts virtually every move a Facebook user makes to his online "friends." For example, now, when a user logs on, he will immediately see that "Tim changed his relationship status to 'It's Complicated'" or "Sarah removed Kelly Clarkson from her 'Favorite Music'" or "Randy posted a comment on Jean's wall: 'U rock my world.'" Each alteration to one's profile is even time-stamped, so others can know if "Jenny removed Bill as a friend" while she was supposed to be in her 11 a.m. chemistry class."Wow. I can't believe this has made national news. Sad, isn't it?
I understand the issues people currently have with this friend-collection/form of communication/ online community website and I can see where Facebook administrators have overstepped their boundaries in terms of privacy. But, when something is taken away, I don't wanna end up missing it. And more importantly, why the fuck does it take something like a Facebook news feed to mobilize millions of students? Yes, a lot of justification has been given to answer this question, but SERIOUSLY, people all over the world are dying because of wars, social construction, poverty, etc. and my generation is upset over their Facebook privacy or lack thereof? People are currently fighting for our human rights, equal rights, women's rights and racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism and such still exist but we're P.O.'ed because we are able to find out who said what to whom and what pictures of whatever party were posted and who commented on them?! We've really done it now, haven't we? Why can't we fight against what is substantial and why can't we come together for even bigger issues, something beyond ourselves for a change?
Besides.. for Mark Zuckerberg has apologized and put in his two cents:
Oh yeah.. when did we become Generation Y? Shouldn't we be able to label ourselves if we choose to? Almost everyday, I come across a new reason to give up. Give up fighting, speaking up, educating, you name it. Social justice is hard. It hurts to see my fellow youth falling through a cracked up system that doesn't really give a shit. This Facebook thing is quirky, it's significant because it's insignificant and it makes good, random news. But every reason to give up gradually becomes ten times as much to keep going."We really messed this one up. When we launched News Feed and Mini-Feed we were trying to provide you with a stream of information about your social world. Instead, we did a bad job of explaining what the new features were and an even worse job of giving you control of them. I'd like to try to correct those errors now.
When I made Facebook two years ago my goal was to help people understand what was going on in their world a little better. I wanted to create an environment where people could share whatever information they wanted, but also have control over whom they shared that information with. I think a lot of the success we've seen is because of these basic principles..."
But foreal, websites can be edited and at the end of the day, our stalkers are each other. Mark Z. wanted to create the site to spread information, so let's do it.
IN OTHER NEWS... This morning's news session included, "The World's Worst Kept Secret" -- CIA Secret Prisons in Guantanamo Bay and the ban on torturing prisoners. Too bad this ban doesn't apply to CIA interrogations, or so I've heard. Legal analysts say these ongoing military trials aid families of 9/11 victims in terms of moving on and seeking justice. But I'm a people person and two wrongs don't make a right, that's for damn sure. I saw the WTC movie and this American pride stuff has got to tone down. While buried in the debris and cutting close to death and insanity, a character from the movie had a line that was something along the lines of, "How could a foreign invader come and do this to us?" Well, how could we go and do it right back?
Time to Facebook it.
x_magsalita.
// posted by Janice @ 2:20 AM 
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