Monday, 7 May 2018

(De)Face(d) Book


This controversy went viral instantly, and many 
intimations o’ privacy per se were extirpated in 

th’ way a mass of personal data was obtained, 
analysed and clandestinely used t’ sway public 

opinion; so we’re again victims - & vanquished 
in a scene of demeaning commercial treachery: 

We’ve a long way to go back, almost a lifetime - 
t’ reconnect with those early Facebook dreams 

2004 was the year & Menlo Park the origin of a 
new online social & networking media; it began 

at Harvard College, they called it the Facebook
after a name taken off of those sheets of paper 

profiling students & staff distributed t’ freshmen 
at commencement of each new University year, 

and grew quickly into Boston’s higher education 
institutions, Ivy League, and Stanford University 

then in 2006, anyone who claimed t’ be at least 
13 could become a registered user; well whoee 

we see rueful Mark Zuckerberg’s face testimony 
t’ his $62 billion net worth, while we try to erase 

data that we’d seen as privileged to our Family 
© 14 April 2018, I. D. Carswell 

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