Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for August 06, 2009
August 05, 2009
August 07, 2009
Transcript:
Irving: I knew it! You signed up and immediately became one of those people who wastes her whole day writing on Facebook! Cathy: Don't be ridiculous. I'm a mature woman! I am NOT wasting my day writing on Facebook! I'm wasting my day editing my photo on Facebook!
The whole point of the internet is decentralization. Everything facebook does has already been available in decentralized applications. People are supposed to use email, have their own web page/blog (but most people have forgotten how and have to use some corporation’s), use IM (decentralized protocols like IRC or Jabber, not AIM or MSN), etc.
Facebook makes you socially dependent on a single corporation with a centralized server farm.