I don't know about good and evil but war and megacorps both redraw the map; in that respect they're similar. I think facebook gets a lot of hate because it's a

I don't know about good and evil but war and megacorps both redraw the map; in that respect they're similar. I think facebook gets a lot of hate because it's a community tool designed to organize communities around external influences. Alexis de tocqueville talked about americans dropping everything at work to go build a church or school (community goods). Facebook is people dropping work to look at bikini photos or 'engage with brands'. The alternative is communities like kickstarter, where like-minded people get together to invent something new. It's niche and local; if you want to only support kickstarters in your city or neighborhood, you can. Many kickstarter projects have supporters who are involved in the project IRL. If you could choose between the facebook economy and the kickstarter economy, which do you pick?