South African journalist and pundit Ivo Vegter has rapidly become one of my favourite daily reads (his is one of the 30 surviving feeds in my “daily” list that once numbered 300 feeds).
One contemporary cultural phenomenon that he was dead right about is Facebook. In 2007, when Facebook was peaking, Ivo started warning that Facebook was way more sinister than it appeared. When it was rumoured that Microsoft was going to buy it, Ivo publicly committed to leaving Facebook in the event Microsoft bought in to Facebook
It did.
Ivo, true to his word, deactivated his account and decamped for Google’s Orkut.
Since then Facebook has been the subject of increasingly hostile user and press attacks, mainly related to its dreadful privacy policies and practices.
Now the arty-farty types and designers seem to have turned on ole’ Facebook too. Phenomenally successful new image aggregation site FFFFound has these two images below showing strong popularity. Hats off Ivo, you told us so.
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Ivo Vegter 03.29.08 at 1:21 pm
I am definitely getting one of those t-shirts.
Thanks for the kind words. I should be back and posting full-time again next week.