[BNM] Death to s/facebook/fedbook and the great CIA social data mining exercise

[Nick Taylor]

> It's not true. I don't think people who are not on facebook are any less
> cool than those who are! I don't think being on facebook has any
> bearing.

Perception is everything. It's like looking for hairs on the palms of 
your hands - in my experience, you don't actually find out how cool you 
were until it's too late, and you've turned into a turnip with 
matchsticks for legs and a funny little hat with a bell on it... and 
that doesn't happen until you check to make sure that it hasn't 
happened, then it's too late. It's a Schrodinger thing.


> gmail + digg - facebook =
> gmail + facebook / digg =

As above. It's like looking in the fridge for you car-keys. They're not 
there, and if you ever find yourself trying to find them there it ought 
to be fairly self-evident that they're a lost cause, and it might just 
be easier to get a new car.


> I don't think participation in or membership of any website has any
> bearing on your credibility.

Yes... similar to being any particular dungeons and dragons character or 
other, I suspect.


Being cool is to do with not trying - but still achieving what everyone 
else wants, but they do try. Hard. The internet is all about getting 
attention. Being cool on the internet is about getting a lot of 
attention and being completely insoucient or oblivious to it... which is 
a mite tricky if you're a social-networking desperado. It's not a 
contradiction of ways, but of means.

The coolest people on the internet are cool because of things they've 
done off the internet.




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