[microsound] .microsound on Facebook

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I think its pretty sad to watch the internet get boiled down to a
homogenized, corp controlled, curated stream of stream of nonsense just so
analytics can be datamined.... what ever happened to by the people for the
people. Its funny how FB is getting more and more noisy and staticy but no
one will make a good alternative because everyone else is using it. That
seems like a faulty logic. On the flip side, FB  does make curated group
conversation with fully re-post-able media easy to use and quick to
consume... Oh what a world we live in....


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:39 PM, John Hopkins <jhopkins at tech-no-mad.net>wrote:

> Hei Kim & fellow microsounders...
>
>
>  Judging from the number of posts it seems like this mode of
>> communication, i.e.
>> the email list, has become antiquated.
>>
>
> well, it is definitely a reality that FaceBook has sucked the oxygen from
> a vast majority of public conversations. I think it is a pity. As an early
> adopter for many years (and as a 'new media' educator and long-time network
> performance artist), I checked out FB between 2006-11 and then closed my
> account for a variety of reasons -- including their data-harvesting
> policies and the insistence that one do everything 'their way'. Of course,
> one can argue that the NSA is collecting everything anyway, so who cares
> about Zuckerberg doing the same thing...
>
> oh well, I guess if the mailing list goes away, then I for one, perhaps
> the only one, will no longer have a microsonic voice :-\  Everything has a
> life-time, and dinosaurs do die...
>
> cheers, and the conversation has been nice while it lasted!
>
> Cheers,
> JOhn
> --
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