Re: [Marxism] Facebook?

["Bob Morris" <bob.morris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Twitter <http://twitter.com>has none of those problems. You can block anyone
from following you, and there's nothing but your tweets (twitter posts)
online except for what you choose to put in your profile. You can also have
your Twitter account essentially private, not appearing anywhere except to
those you specifically invite in.

There are also dozens if not hundreds of  Twitter add-on services and sites
offering extra functionality. Check the wiki <http://twitter.pbwiki.com/>.
And everything is free.

The architecture is completely open with RSS feeds for everything. Contrast
that with MySpace and FaceBook which are extremely closed and nearly
impossible to get data out.

The recent use of Twitter by pro-Tibet groups during the SF Olympic torch
run to deliver real-time updates shows how this can be a powerful organizing
tool. (How else would I have known there were cops on jet skis...)


On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Ben Morgan <bmorgan1984@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  I do not trust facebook. As an application designer I will agree that
> facebook provides great freedom for creating and regulating your own data
> but it does so at the expense of lionizing it's own platform.
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