All things in moderation I suppose. I don't have an issue with Facebook's basic premise, just the emergent behavior of it's community and what the managing com

All things in moderation I suppose. I don't have an issue with Facebook's basic premise, just the emergent behavior of it's community and what the managing company has become. When I used it, it had both positive and negative outcomes, like many things. I just found that many of those around me were causing serious self through overuse of the platform. I think it is a social parallel to alcohol. Somewhat helpful for meeting new people, not so helpful as a replacement for a social life. The problem occurs when a public mega corporation is managing the entire flow of this product though. Imagine if every bar in your town was owned by Walmart and they were hell bent on keeping everyone engaged as often and for as long as possible, data mining and optimizing all your interactions. People would probably see that as a bad thing.