The latest ‘improvement’ to Facebook’s interface ‘invites’ you to tag people who appear with you in photographs but doesn’t offer you any provision for declining the invitation. You're presented with only one choice: OK.
Well, you do have one other choice: you can quit Facebook altogether, then reopen the program to get a new page. But the next time you click on the name of a ‘friend’ — or even a ‘friend’ of a ‘friend’ — you'll get the same razzmatazz.
Nosy? These people make the Homeland Security snoops look like recluses.
Facebook would have you believe that this is all aimed at promoting ‘connectedness’ among people the world over, broadening global friendship and understanding. Yup, that's what the KGB and the Stasi were into, too. They just wanted to get to know you better. And so do their present-day counterparts in our own beloved governments, not to mention a million enterprising ad men.
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