Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Hating the Like button
Today Facebook introduced an SDK that enables your Facebook friends' "likes" to appear throughout the web. Like most things on the web we become defined by taste. The problem is that this reinforces an inflated value of opinion in which our subjectivity is defined by aesthetic preference. We are worthwhile because of our subjectivity. But that's just my opinion.
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That reminds me a little of a time when you questioned something like the amazon algorithm for deciding what to forcefeed you next. I like to break those things by ordering something like trinh minh ha with a side order of David lee roth's autobiography. You can do the same thing with people. -dc
You know, I'm just a hater.
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