With friends like these …
Facebook has 59 million users - and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won’t catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site
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I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as “a social utility that connects you with the people around you”. But hang on. Why on God’s earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?
yaddayaddayadda…. the author of this article seems to have gone a little off the deep end.
A netquantance sent me a facebook notice stating he was leaving facebook in two weeks… I then checked some of the links on his Wall page, and saw a link to the above article very near the top, and thought, ‘Egad, man! Don’t let an anti-conservative crackpot like THAT drive you away from Facebook!’
Am I correct in labeling this author a crackpot? Or at least misguided?