During the holidays, there was this weird - but 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 and comes up empty for ideas. 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.
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