get a picture, you loser

March 6th, 2009 • posts i've written

On the web, every little decision you make while building a social platform will have unintended consequences among the people who choose to congregate there. This morning I received a Facebook friend request from a pal of mine. She’s been on Facebook for months, but she’s obviously not too into broadcasting her identity across the web.

She has no photo of herself, no photos of other people, and bare bone details about her life. In conversation, it makes total sense to protect your privacy this way. But in a place called Facebook, this type of behavior is lunacy, bordering on fucking absurd; as evidenced by her friends’ comments on her wall.

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Tags: facebook, friends, photos, social norms

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