More, perhaps, than any other service I use regularly, it seems important to keep thinking about Facebook. The terms and conditions are many, near-labyrinthine indeed, and the way in which the service attracts people from so many facets of each person’s life also requires thought in terms of how I interact with it all.
There is of course a precedent in this country, and that’s Old Friends, the Fairfax-owned site to which more or less everyone, even my contact-wary señor, seems to belong. Many of the friends from school by whom I’ve been contacted on Facebook I’d previously been in touch with on Old Friends.
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Socially mediated
10 February, 2009
in commentatrix,O internet
There is of course a precedent in this country, and that’s Old Friends, the Fairfax-owned site to which more or less everyone, even my contact-wary señor, seems to belong. Many of the friends from school by whom I’ve been contacted on Facebook I’d previously been in touch with on Old Friends.
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