The New York Times has an article that expresses much of the sentiment I’ve been forming about Facebook over the last several months. It says there is a small but growing group of people who are leaving the site after putting some thought into its implications. To summarize this sentiment in one sentence: commercializing the intimate details of people’s lives is distasteful.
The quote is from one Leif Harmsen, described by the article as an anti-FB crusader. Don’t look up his web site while you’re eating lunch, but that is a perceptive quote.
I’m not planning to abandon the site, but I am limiting the amount of time I spend on it and the information I post on it. For me, it’s mainly become a quick way to send a message to people for whom I’ve forgotten the phone number or email address.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-medium-t.html
