Speaking in my professional capacity as a dystopian science fiction writer...

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/01/fool-me-twice.html

Facebook Dating you say…

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Lissen. We’re already in an abusive relationship with Facebook.

Where does it go from here?

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Other snarky thoughts:

“Facebook Dating. Yeah, I seem to remember that back in the day. It was called MySpace.”

“Fantastic. More excuses for creepy people to stalk you on facebook.”

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Reality has become the sections of sci-fi books that I would skim.

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@doctorow The “my romantic life” link is broken: it doesn’t say anything about your romantic life at all, Cory!

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Cory is married with a kid… what romantic life… :smile:

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The last line there is particularly illuminating.

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Right!?! It’s all so goddamn dumb. The world right now is terrifying, amoral, cowardly, selfish, narcissistic, petty, artless and ignorant, but it’s mainly just really, really dumb. Dystopian sci-fi really overestimated humanity.

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Cory wasn’t writing dystopian science fiction … he was writing a cookbook!

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I thought Tindr already used facebook data to match people?

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Not directly. There’s another app called Hinge that more explicitly relies on Facebook data.

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Say hello to the Honeymoon Phase!

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