Track Mangoes

An apocalyptic note for the New Year. The following quote is from Jaron Lanier's (Founder of Wired magazine) You Are Not a Gadget. Here he is talking about facebook:

"The real customer is the advertiser of the future, but this creature has yet to appear at the time this is being written. The whole artifice, the whole idea of fake friendship, is just bait laid by the lords of the clouds to lure hypothetical advertisers—we might call them messianic advertisers—who might someday show up...The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to appear in which some method of violating privacy and dignity becomes acceptable."

Before you call me pessimistic, I implore you to Check It--he was prophetic: Facebook's Great Betrayal