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Facebook, your personal life commercialized.

AN INQUIRY You're not the first to think it's creepy to have your personal life commercialized. Jürgen Habermas has been especially eloquent about this. Start with "The Theory of Communicative Action." Copies are available on AbeBooks.com. Also interesting on this score: "The Purchase of Intimacy," by Viviana Zelizer.

The Medium
Facebook Exodus
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: August 30, 2009
Why some Facebook members are moving on.

Posted by on August 29, 2009 4:13 AM |

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