I don't think its a slippery slope - its more like the gaping precipice. Within a few generations, we will have members of society who believe such extreme man

I don't think its a slippery slope - its more like the gaping precipice. Within a few generations, we will have members of society who believe such extreme manipulation is the norm. Well, its already here, anyway - but at what cost will we expose future generations to our idiotic, un-tested, software systems!! Perhaps the only answer is to stop using the freakin' social web, but .. really .. how can we do that? This is almost, really, the last straw, Facebook!