Authors:
Gary Marsden
I have been asking myself this a lot lately. Like most of the online world, I am slowly becoming sucked into Facebook. But what is Facebook? On one level, it is no more than an aggregation of technologies that have been around before: email, IRC, interactive whiteboards—pah! For the users of Facebook, however, it is the Internet. The individual technologies that I (and other old-timers) cherished before are just achieving their full impact within the Facebook paradigm. In fact, Facebook is starting to give me flashbacks to the early days of the Web, when I missed the point of…
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