Cory Doctorow: How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook

Cory Doctorow (BoingBoing) weaves in Information Week a cautionary tale about Facebook usage.

http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204203573

Cory’s thesis is straightforward – as more people join Facebook, it becomes less desirable as you’re forced to ‘friend’ or ’snub’ random people from your past.

In the real world, we don’t articulate our social networks. Imagine how creepy it would be to wander into a co-worker’s cubicle and discover the wall covered with tiny photos of everyone in the office, ranked by “friend” and “foe,” with the top eight friends elevated to a small shrine decorated with Post-It roses and hearts