Duncan, over at FM Tech brought an excellent piece by “John” on commentary.co.za to my attention. The subject is Facebook Humanism. The intro goes like this:
I dislike insipid and vacuous attempts at ‘caring’ at the best of times, but it’s becoming depressingly apparent that the internet has resulted in a new breed of insincere sincerity: Facebook humanism.
It’s one of the reasons I went to all the trouble of checking out of Hotel California, as the process has been dubbed. (To leave Facebook you have to fill in this form – there’s a group explaining the process here.)
Sadly, commentary.co.za doesn’t allow me to like to a particular piece so I’ve posted the full text below the line. You can find the full post here. Thanks to Darren for supplying the link that I couldn’t see on commentary.co.za.
Darren said
Thanks for the mention and I’m glad you liked John’s post. It’s always nice to be appreciated.
I would just like to point out that Commentary.co.za does actually let you link to particular posts, and each post has a ‘Permalink’ link at the bottom of it. I’m a bit perturbed that you missed it though, as it means our style might not be as clear as it should be. We may have to look at emphasising it a little more in the future.
For the record, the permanent link to John’s post is http://commentary.co.za/archives/2008/06/07/facebook-humanism/