Comments on: Facebook’s Structure of Compulsory Happiness http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2014/12/30/facebooks-structure-of-compulsory-happiness/ We live in a cyborg society. Technology has infiltrated the most fundamental aspects of our lives: social organization, the body, even our self-concepts. This blog chronicles our new, augmented reality. Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:52:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: jennydavis http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2014/12/30/facebooks-structure-of-compulsory-happiness/#comment-550737 Fri, 02 Jan 2015 23:55:49 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=19539#comment-550737 Right, and it’s interesting that when things go awry, the answer is “well, algorithms can sometimes create an unintentional miss” as though algorithms aren’t written by, and imbued with the assumptions of, people.

PS-thanks for the media-medium fix

]]> By: Comradde PhysioProffe http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2014/12/30/facebooks-structure-of-compulsory-happiness/#comment-549625 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 03:19:44 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=19539#comment-549625 The medium itself obliterates major aspects of human existence. There are deep connections between people that can never be captured by photographs and typed words.

]]> By: Joseph Ratliff http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2014/12/30/facebooks-structure-of-compulsory-happiness/#comment-549364 Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:07:01 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=19539#comment-549364 “Compulsory happiness” … sounds an awful lot like something Huxley wrote about to me. Especially when you add on what Doug Hill just stated.

I vote for real life, accepting both the good and the bad that happen as part of the whole … not “fake happiness.”

]]> By: Facebook’s Structure of Compulsory Happiness - Treat Them Better http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2014/12/30/facebooks-structure-of-compulsory-happiness/#comment-549344 Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:03:47 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=19539#comment-549344 […] Facebook’s Structure of Compulsory Happiness […]

]]> By: Doug Hill http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2014/12/30/facebooks-structure-of-compulsory-happiness/#comment-549308 Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:55:09 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=19539#comment-549308 Excellent points. It reminds me of how uncomfortable I’ve felt when occasionally disagreeing with something somebody posts on FaceBook. Argument seems out of place there.

Another thing that’s striking about the Year in Review is how transparently it revealed Facebook’s habitual, automatic exploitation of personal information. It apparently never occurred to the programmers there that it might not be appropriate to collect and display a record of people’s personal lives, taken from the bits they’d shared on the site. It didn’t occur to them that this might be inappropriate because this is what they do — it’s nothing less than Facebook’s reason for being. It would be much smarter if they’d keep their algorithms shut and stop reminding us of the man behind the curtain.

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