The Guardian looks into the Facebook conspiracy

January 23, 2008

There’s nothing like a bit of intrigue to raise the blood pressure! After digging around a bit on FB and signing up to a hundred or so pointless applications (for research only!) I still don’t get how 2 million a week are signing up! What are they signing up for exactly, haven’t they got email, do they really need to throw a virtual piece of cake or a toaster at a friends ‘wall’? What are they getting out of it? What does anyone get out of it?

Just 1% of that traffic redirected to somewhere like FindLikeMinds.com could build a really meaningful resource that delivers something of genuine value – access to the greatest things to ever influence us.

Beyond virtual cake and toaster throwing and the poorly targeted, intrusive ads there’s a whole world out there and it’s full of interesting things to discover!

Full Guardian article: With friends like these … Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook