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Are you someone’s user-generated content?

07 January 2008 in Blogging, Internet, Notes by Stilgherrian | 3 comments

Brian Clark has published an excellent piece which explains why I prefer to publish things here, on my own website, rather that on my Facebook profile. Worth reading in its entirety, but it concludes: “Valuable content on a site you own is a classic win-win for readers and the site owner, while publishing on Facebook is a lopsided relationship that favors Zuckerberg and his data-hoarding cronies. While I think social networking is useful in small quantities, I’ve no interest in becoming someone’s user-generated content, especially at the expense of my privacy.”

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08 January 2008 at 2:52 pm

jason

You can publish things on Facebook?

I suppose Zombie fights are a form of content to be publish like any other.

08 January 2008 at 6:28 pm

Stilgherrian

@jason: Yes, you can. But in your case, since you work for Mr Murdoch, you have to use MySpace.

08 January 2008 at 9:34 pm

jason

True! *ahem*