Bitchin Dave's Newsletter - January 20th
During the holidays, there was this weird - and maybe "cute-adjacent" - TV ad for Facebook. The premise was that in an office Christmas exchange, a guy got a woman he didn't know, so he watches her at the office to come up with ideas for a gift. Of course, he comes up empty. Then, he goes to Facebook and discovers she's a KISS fan. So he gets her some KISS fan dolls. But the subtext really bothered me. The guy essentially becomes a creep and stalks his coworker to find out more about her. He follows her around the office and (at least I remember it this way) a little after work. Then, he digs into her facebook profile. And he uses the Facebook Marketplace to find these dolls from some sketchy guy. It has such a stalker vibe to it. And yet, that's kind of what Facebook is, right? They're promoting exactly what they are. We've reached a level of interconnectivity so that anyone can cyberstalk anyone else, and privacy is a thing of the past. Ugh. ====...