On Jan 7, 2015, at 4:08 PM, MM <marxmail00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The archives exist, but their usefulness to those who see themselves as FB’s users - who are in fact not so much its users as simultaneously its unpaid laborers and its product - has never been FB’s priority.
This is deliberate. Ex-FB employee Kate Losse, who wrote a good book on her experience, told me that they deliberately make it difficult to find old stuff because they want you to produce new stuff.
> Despite an intoxicating adolescence - built on the foundations of a dubious birth, but which was masked by the excitement of the uprisings in the Arab world, which happened to coincide with the period of FB’s greatest “democratic" potential - FB has become in its maturity the abomination it was always destined to be: an abomination, hidden behind an algorithmic enigma, wrapped in a large, data-mining turd.
Yawn.