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Poems - spreading tendrils

spreading tendrils

by delapruch

congratulations to the governments &
the private enterprises
who seek to spy & reap the benefits of those who
offer themselves up to you on a silver platter called
facebook---
it must have been hard(er) back in the day
to get information on people who
may or may not have wanted to give it up to you---
after all,
there had to be money & time spent,
employing agents to sift through documents &
build files on people,
but today,
citizens do it for you!

this must drive you both to ecstasy.

with names, addresses &
all the relationships between people
being freely deposited into the well o’ zuckerberg,
the spreading tendrils of influence into the lives of
individuals seems both constant &
without end,
for the “need” to be socially networked
becomes the norm
rather than the exception &
it’s gotten to the point that because people update their
facebook accounts so quickly,
revealing everything about them in real time,
well hell,
you don’t even need to tap the phones anymore!

but one goes about their facebooking innocently---
they tell themselves
“i have nothing to hide”
“i’ve done nothing wrong”
so volunteering every aspect of their lives to the company
who collects information from the citizens of the empire
doesn’t seem like something to worry about &
those who say that it is, get deemed paranoid
conspiracy fanatics,
so it continues &
US intelligence agencies
get their work done for FREE
&
as the database grows
so does the file on
you,
until the day your card gets pulled.

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