I decided to stick my head into the "firehose" of Facebook's public graph API last night and ended up finding some strange spambots creating pages and posting t

I decided to stick my head into the "firehose" of Facebook's public graph API last night and ended up finding some strange spambots creating pages and posting thousands of Amazon links. I followed the trail, trying to figure out what they were doing and what the point was. No one had liked the pages, so it didn't seem to make sense that they were building links to Amazon and not their own site (which I could understand for SEO). Anyway, I ended up going to the furthest reaches of the internet, never really finding an answer, but I got that same feeling: holy hell, this is amazing! It's like being an explorer, going where only a few people have gone before. The internet can still be this, if you want it to be. You can still dig around the trenches, take the back-roads, see what you find, see what's going on behind the surface of the social networks and media. God damn, I love it.