“When a human being becomes a set of data on a web site like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Every thing shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it’s a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears. It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an over inflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should be careful what we wish for: our denuded networked selves don’t look more free, they just look more owned.”
Zadie Smith
Smith was in Harvard in Autumn 2003 – so she is one of the few who can say “I was there” at Facebook’s inception, she remembers Facemash and all the fuss it caused at the time, so she is well placed to discuss the “Generation Why?”
Read the full article Generation Why? by Zadie Smith HERE
