I recently posted an entry to this blog with a tongue-in-cheek comment that I didn't really know what Facebook was for.
I received a comment from "Anonymous" which read as follows:
I remember once, as a young child, sitting in a garden in Bristol while my brother was being born. A wasp flew past and I made some comment about how much I hated wasps. My Uncle asked me: "Why don't you like wasps?" "Well," I replied (I was clearly a very articulate toddler), "I'm not sure what they are for.""What they are for?," my uncle exclaimed in surprise, "Why do they need to be FOR anything?"Today, I get to say the same back. Facebook isn't FOR anything (though it has many uses it can be put to). It's just THERE and, unlike wasps, it's bloomin good fun!
Well, nephew Kevin - I'll tell you what Facebook is for. It is for fun, as you state. It enables friends to communicate. It enables you to increase your circle of friends via "cyberspace" (what a horrible word!)
But mostly it's to make Money, Ackers, Filthy Luker, Bread, Dough, Cash for its instigators.
They have made piles of greenbacks . . . and good luck to them!
I just wish I'd been the one to think of it!
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Indeed, money is as always at the root of all cyberspace. But I think Facebook and it's soon to be parent company GOOGLE have caused an about turn in net capitalism. I was fortunate enough to meet the Director of Google research at a recent conference and was impressed by his commitment to corporate money making, while still having a commitment to providing free resources for the customer.
I'll always pine for the anarchist internet that existed not too long ago...and the Wikipedia and Sourceforges of this world will continue to fight that very good fight....but maybe it's just me getting older, I have a sneaking strain of admiration for the Googles, Adobes and Sun Microsystems of the world who make so much money without us ever feeling we've parted from it.
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