Facebook In Hardcover?
8 Jun
My feeling here is that we’re in a confused time, and there are bound to be certain contradictions in our behavior we’re going to have to laugh and forgive ourselves for later.
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World (Simon & Schuster, 372 pages, $26), by David Kirkpatrick hit bookstores today. (Warning, that link takes you to a FB page about the FB book. So clever!)
Now, when you finally drag yourself off of Facebook to do something healthy and old-fashioned like read a real book, you can…?
Is it just me, or does this make you feel a little cornered?
The book dishes the story of FB, including such conflicts as the time “three former classmates accused Zuckerberg of hijacking the idea for Facebook from another social site he was helping them build.” (That lawsuit was settled in ’08.) Beyond that, it addresses interesting points about how social networking is changing the world, and questions like: how much do we really want to share?
Sure, the discussion is at hand. Every so often, like last summer or last week, mutterings about a mass FB exodus crescendo and die down again. We hate it. We love it. We love to hate it. We wish we could quit it, but where would we go?
Eventually, somewhere else no more pure. But for now, even if it’s not much of a stand, I’m just not going to put it on my bookshelf.
Maybe I’ll read it on a Kindle, instead.
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