“Some of my early hopes for social media, that it represented … some kind of renaissance for socialism in the western world, are starting to run dry.”

Marvelous post at twopointouch on the resemblance between social media and—gee, duh, hello—social control. Fools. There is no free lunch. Fools in several regards.

One, the Sharecropper model, as made popular by Alan Herrell—everything you post on Facebook is valuable, fools, and you are giving it away. It’s rather touching, in a way. Children at play, with many pretty toys, innocent of their role as fodder. As demographics. Ooh, let me post my family pictures, isn’t this fun! And be sure and send a “gift.” This Facebook application platform thing is the goldmine of goldmines. Read the rest of this entry »