An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg
To Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, co-founder of Facebook, the ‘social utility’ giant overtaking the world by meticulously converting each individual into one giant and scabrous conglomeration of friends. I think, Mark Zuckerberg, that is where your ulterior motive lies; or, that is my only understanding where this tyrannical titan called Facebook is concerned.
And Oh! Mark Zuckerberg, won’t you buy an ‘F’?
But like, Oh My God! I don’t understand! I really have difficulties converting Facebook into any normal sense. There is the freaky cult part spawning jargon, which to me is always a bad sign; there is the even more freaky probability of operating like a statistic, adding and asking to add ‘friends’; there is the even more freaky probability of forming some kind of dependence on it and mistaking the careless banter of Facebook as something meaningful and social.
There is no arguing, Facebook is BIG. It must be fulfilling some kind of human need which must have been around ever since our Cro-Magnon ancestors began their stuttering attempts at communication; because that’s what Facebook is all about, right Mark Zuckerberg? communication? Or isn’t it?. . . I must really be confused, I’ve always thought that communication was something careful and deliberate. . . but then again, that could just be my romantic notions rearing up again.
Oh well, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook is not for me, but maybe you would like to convince me otherwise as one bad pellet of lead could sour your whole pot of gold. And really, I was only wondering Mark Zuckerberg, would Facebook like to add our ‘F’ to its list of friends?
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