I’m trying to learn for my Article Writing class and I’m stuck. Can you help?
Foer brings up several answers to this question:
1) Facebook’s opacity, or lack of transparency
2) Facebook’s belief in the ultimate transparency in the user.
3) Data mining
4) The newsfeed
5) Facebook’s experiments.
For this assignment, I want you to find a quote for each of these answers that points to how this
mechanism works. This quote should be idea-rich, and lend itself to a robust, fruitful analysis.
Then, I want you to analyze that quote to show exactly how this mechanism functions to
limit our free will.
Each of these analyses should be 75-100 words. You should analyze each of these concepts, so
there should be 5 quotes, and somewhere between 375-500 words of original writing