Facebook es el futuro de en Internet, al menos eso nos dice Lev Gro
ssman en la revista Time.
It’s a website, but in a sense, it’s another version of the Internet itself: a Net within the Net, one that’s everything the larger Net is not. Facebook is cleanly designed and has a classy, upmarket feel to it–a whiff of the Ivy League still clings. People tend to use their real names on Facebook. They also declare their sex, age, whereabouts, romantic status and institutional affiliations. Identity is not a performance or a toy on Facebook; it is a fixed and orderly fact. Nobody does anything secretly: a news feed constantly updates your friends on your activities. On Facebook, everybody knows you’re a dog.
Maybe that’s why Facebook’s fastest-growing demographic consists of people 35 or older: they’re refugees from the uncouth wider Web. Every community must negotiate the imperatives of individual freedom and collective social order, and Facebook constitutes a critical rebalancing of the Internet’s founding vision of unfettered electronic liberty. Of course, it is possible to misbehave on Facebook–it’s just self-defeating. Unlike the Internet, Facebook is structured around an opt-in philosophy; people have to consent to have contact with or even see others on the network. If you’re annoying folks, you’ll essentially cease to exist, as those you annoy drop you off the grid.
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Y ahora que estoy dentro, ¿me explican para qué sirve?
Nobody does anything secretly … si empezamos tocando algo tan sagrado como el anonimato, mal vamos. Por más que yo sea un perro … si maullo quiero que crean que soy un gato.
‘Identitity’ is ALLWAYS a performance. Vamos, con lo que me gusta a mà ser en Inet una chica de provincias con senos turgentes …