Facebook's Final #ZUCKUP
Ever since Facebook became an indispensable aspect of our lives, there has been a growing sense of foreboding that something is not quite right, a premonition that eventually we would need to make a total break with the site. In recent weeks, however, the importance of the social network for fomenting insurrections abroad has led many of us to conclude that Facebook was on the verge of transcending its narrow commercial concerns, that it was on the brink of elevating itself into a neutral platform for social revolution. Yesterday, our hopes were finally dashed.
On March 29, Facebook callously deleted the organizing page for the Third Intifada, a call for a Palestinian popular uprising to shake off Israel's brutal occupation that had over 200,000 supporters. The Third Intifada's Twitter and Google-owned YouTube pages still exist. Facebook's act of suppression is an unforgivable #ZUCKUP, may it be the last.
The first major #ZUCKUP was the commercialization of friendship. The second disturbing #ZUCKUP was the remorseless pursuit of privacy-invasive technologies. The third #ZUCKUP, the one that will be remembered as the final nail in Facebook's coffin, is the cynical attempt to stand in the way of history by blocking the people's worldwide movement toward self-governance and democracy.
Let us now kill Facebook with this #ZUCKUP campaign. Pull your allegiance, delete your account and watch for the day that Facebook implodes spectacularly.
In committing communal Facebook suicide, we will open up the possibility of new activist innovations, improved social apps for revolt, fresh perspectives on how to turn online passion into real world action.
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Mauro
I fully agree with you. There are quite a few things that doesn't fit here in Adbusters: what's that Roxxxy (the sex robot) pseudoadvertisement? And what about the brand-like way they're advertising the shoes?
Come on, Adbusters: since you have all these people reading and visiting your website, why don't you motivate people to think and act responsibly?
Sorry about my english, it's been a long time since I don't practise it.
Mauro
I fully agree with you. There are quite a few things that doesn't fit here in Adbusters: what's that Roxxxy (the sex robot) pseudoadvertisement? And what about the brand-like way they're advertising the shoes?
Come on, Adbusters: since you have all these people reading and visiting your website, why don't you motivate people to think and act responsibly?
Sorry about my english, it's been a long time since I don't practise it.
Anonymoussss
I've never really liked Facebook or seen a need for it so I feel somewhat left out in terms of committing "Facebook suicide". But I'm guessing (and hoping I am wrong) that half the people who read this article will not have the guts to do it.... They rely too much on Facebook. I see it as something that controls those who use it. My classmates are hooked on it.
The mass obsession over it disturbs me. It just isn't healthy.
Things need to change... Especially after this blunt display of misused authority.
Anonymoussss
I've never really liked Facebook or seen a need for it so I feel somewhat left out in terms of committing "Facebook suicide". But I'm guessing (and hoping I am wrong) that half the people who read this article will not have the guts to do it.... They rely too much on Facebook. I see it as something that controls those who use it. My classmates are hooked on it.
The mass obsession over it disturbs me. It just isn't healthy.
Things need to change... Especially after this blunt display of misused authority.
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