HYPERCATALECTA

The internet mirrors and magnifies everyday life, making visible many of the issues we hoped would disappear, including race and class-based social divisions in American society

You can download internet sociologist Dana Boyd’s chapter on her theory about Facebook as digital white suburbia here: http://www.danah.org/papers/2009/WhiteFlightDraft3.pdf.

I thought I went through all the options, but now I’m not really sure anymore…

You might as well argue that you should never tell anyone that you have a job, because then people will know you are at work from 9-5 every day, and can use the white pages to find your home and rob you! Or that you should never, ever update your Facebook status to let people know you’re on vacation. Or that you shouldn’t blog that you’re at work, or at a restaurant, or in another city, or anywhere other than home. Or that you should never upload mobile pix to Flickr when you’re out at night. Or for that matter, you should never, ever, ever tell anyone that you’re anyplace on the phone, because you know who may be listening in? Robbers! Fucking robbers who want to steal your precious, precious, precocious twee shit!

Refreshing comment on the whole Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook, Pleaserobme discussion.