re: #30 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He has a point, Facebook has turned into a monster. I am still on it to stay in touch with friends and family. When those contacts migrate to other sites (as with my children, whom I contact through other media) then I will probably move on as well.

The problem is that he uses that point as a cudgel instead. While I get that people need to understand that there is no such thing as a “good” company and that capitalism is inherently amoral and must be regulated to prevent the consequences of that lack of anything other than a drive for profit. Facebook is just another example of this.

Yet in this modern world we can not do without working with these companies - oil, tech, entertainment - but we can remember that when we do we are dancing with the devil by the pale moonlight and we will pay the consequences sooner or later.

But that is the real world: shades of grey.

For me the trade off remains that if I had not had _any_ Facebook account, I would not have reconnected with my better half after 36 years. According to him, I should not have done that. Sorry but I seem to recall a saying about Sith & absolutes…