“When you think about Facebook, the market has very specific incentives: Encourage people to be public, increase ad revenue. All sorts of other things will happen from there. The technology makes it very easy to make people be as visible and searchable as possible. Technology is very, very aligned with the market.”, says Danah Boyd in Technology Review: http://www.technologyreview.com/web/25226/?a=f (article by Erica Naone)
When someone gives you something great that appears to be free, they’re getting something back. Facebook is great, but you pay for it by your willingness to see advertising and to share the contents of your conversations. This is fine for keeping in touch, but is it any kind of a way to have serious conversations about personal or business matters?
