and that company darnton the is the biggest marketplace while might not be safe from hackers listening in on that one intimate conversations it's much less riddled with scandals than facebook after all that's happened really willing to trust a book with private details about all of life. some 200000000 facebook users say their single. mark zuckerberg is now targeting this vast online market with facebook's newest feature facebook dating we want facebook to be somewhere where you can start meeting thing really ships. currently facebook posts 2 and a half 1000000000 active users worldwide so the odds of finding a match are reasonably high. but jason kelly a privacy expert with the electronic frontier foundation warns us not to trust that facebook will keep our intimate chats and sensitive data safe. facebook dating raises a lot of red flags because it's because a history of misusing user data and there's no evidence that anything has changed in particular other than facebook's messaging. facebook dating is no standalone app but a feature integrated into the existing facebook infrastructu

me to my second introductory point, which is that unlike the pioneering cultural historian robert darnton who taught that historians should write about the joke we don't get, the things that are opaque. i'll read this short passage. best points of entry in an attempt to penetrate an alien culture can be those where it seems to be most opaque. when you realize you are not getting something, a joke, a proverb and so on that is particularly meaningful to the natives, you can see where to grasp a foreign system of meaning in order to unravel it. and my approach is almost the exact opposite. rather than studying the joke we don't get or the o oe ppaque thi want to study the things that are so obvious, common sensical that we don't examine them at all. free enterprise falls into that category. when i ask my students how many have heard the term and have a sense of what it means, almost all of them raise their hand, and then the fun begins. so, i'll just make one more point, which is that a key theme of my book is how often free enterprise was paired with common sense. here you have kind of a ty