I am so uncool that I have never had a MySpace account, and only just now set up one for Facebook. I’m generally ambivalent about social networking sites. I just don’t tend to utilize them very well, so why bother? But I was invited to join FB, so I did. Aieee! The last step? It gives you a list of folks you might want to friend. What does it draw on to create this list?! I am totally and completely creeped out by it. It listed folks I’ve never interacted with online, but whom I know in real life. Family members with different last names. People I’ve interacted with in other fora, but using different email addresses. People I do not know, but judging from their names (not the same as mine!), may be distantly related to.
Srsly, srsly creeped out here. I realize that there is deep data mining and traffic tracking going on, but somehow, this seems more invasive than I would’ve expected.
red paper boat 