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Vicki Boykis, “What Should You Think About When Using Facebook?,” February 1, 2017, Data, Tech, and Sometimes Nutella (blog), https://veekaybee.github.io/facebook-is-collecting-this/#how-facebook-collects-data.
Tending the Digital Commons
hedgehogreview.com
If you refuse to let your own suffering lie upon you even for an hour and if you constantly try to prevent and forestall all possible distress way ahead of time; if you experience suffering and displeasure as evil, hateful, worthy of annihilation, and as a defect of existence, then it is clear that [you harbour in your heart] … the religion of comfortableness. How little you know of human happiness, you comfortable … people, for happiness and unhappiness are sisters and even twins that either grow up together or, as in your case, remain small together.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
Carl Schmitt says it is a “sign of inner conflict to have more than one real enemy.”11 The same holds for friends. Following Schmitt, having more than one true friend would betoken a lack of character and definition. One’s many friends on Facebook would offer further proof of the late-modern ego’s lack of character and definition. In positive terms, such a human being without character is flexible, able to assume any form, play any role, or perform any function. This shapelessness—or, alternately, flexibility—creates a high degree of economic efficiency.
The Burnout Society
Han, Byung-Chul;
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