All your Face are Belong to us
The Gray Lady has discovered that you can’t quit Facebook:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/technology/11facebook.html
People used to make fun of Google’s "Don’t Be Evil" motto, but my sources tell me that it’s taken seriously inside Google and results in discussions about the morality of alternatives. Probably, exactly what (and no more than) the founders intended.
What’s Facebook’s internal motto, if they have one?
The obvious? "Be Evil."
"Supposing that Truth is a woman — what then?" — the opening line of Nietzche’s Beyond Good and Evil, in my opinion the funniest line in the philosophical canon
"…Evil is usually …. good…" — loose paraphrase from the same work
Or, my favorite – All your face are belong to us.
Darn.
Not first to apply this to Facebook, this guy seems to be the first – or first-ranked. But it does seem to capture their philosophy, doesn’t it?
