Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/01/fool-me-twice.html
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Lissen. We’re already in an abusive relationship with Facebook.
Where does it go from here?
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.”
Reality has become the sections of sci-fi books that I would skim.
@doctorow The “my romantic life” link is broken: it doesn’t say anything about your romantic life at all, Cory!
Cory is married with a kid… what romantic life…
The last line there is particularly illuminating.
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.
Cory wasn’t writing dystopian science fiction … he was writing a cookbook!
I thought Tindr already used facebook data to match people?
Not directly. There’s another app called Hinge that more explicitly relies on Facebook data.
Say hello to the Honeymoon Phase!
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