"A while ago, Burger King launched its »Whopper Sacrifice« project. If
you delete ten friends on Facebook, you get a free Whopper. The friends
are notified that they were sacrificed for a Whopper. A friendship on
Facebook seems to be worth as much as a few grams of ground meat.
Neo-liberalism has turned even individuals into micro-entrepreneurs who
only enter into business deals that promise a profit. Friendship is no
exception: it is likewise expected to be profitable. A friend, according
to Aristotle, is a second self. Today, a friend is a product. And you
can’t idealize Facebook as a friendly space; it is, after all, a space
where unscrupulous bullying takes place. And from an economic point of
view, Facebook is a space of exploitation."
- Byung-Chul Han
Geen opmerkingen:
Een reactie posten