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At SAI, Steve Cheney writes about how Facebook is “no longer a social network” but essentially a reality-TV broadcaster. “People don’t want one normalized identity, either in  real life, or virtually,” he argues. Nonetheless, Facebook imposes unity on our online behavior and broadcasts our doings more or less indiscriminately, which in turn makes what we do “sterile and  neutered.”
(Image: Vivian Maier)

At SAI, Steve Cheney writes about how Facebook is “no longer a social network” but essentially a reality-TV broadcaster. “People don’t want one normalized identity, either in real life, or virtually,” he argues. Nonetheless, Facebook imposes unity on our online behavior and broadcasts our doings more or less indiscriminately, which in turn makes what we do “sterile and neutered.”

(Image: Vivian Maier)

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