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In reply to the discussion: Outside the Facebook wall [View all]klook
(12,171 posts)11. I can actually see the value of online social networking sites.
I think the concept is potentially valid. I just don't want to channel so many communications, interactions, preferences, and experiences through a corporate entity who counts as one of its main values the violation of its members' privacy. As Andrew Lewis wrote on Metafilter, "If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer. You're the product being sold."
As noted in the OP, I am also very disturbed at the insular quality of Facebook and the segregation of non-members into a kind of social ghetto.
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And I'm eight. Since my family are all right wing nutty repubs I just had to get off of Facebook.
monmouth3
Mar 2013
#7
Isn't this like someone in 1970 complaining about all his friends using telephones.
Johonny
Mar 2013
#15
I didn't say my friends on Facebook are being narcissists, and don't pretend that I did.
klook
Mar 2013
#18
I always thought of FB and Twitter as something for people without lives to follow those with lives
thetruthhurtsforsome
Mar 2013
#28
I have a dummy account but being a techno-moron, I never thought I had to take any precautions.
snagglepuss
Mar 2013
#54