I don't use Facebook, so I have never seen that "Are you sure you want to deactivate your account" dialog before. That is truly a marvel of psychological warfa

I don't use Facebook, so I have never seen that "Are you sure you want to deactivate your account" dialog before. That is truly a marvel of psychological warfare aimed at the user. I am in awe over the sentence claiming, "Your ... friends will no longer be able to keep in touch with you." This gives me—a non-user—some insight into a phenomenon I see in Facebook users: a belief that there are no other forms of communication left in this world. Facebook inculcates and continuously reinforces a notion that other communication media are not only uncool, but essentially don't exist. To Facebook and its true-believer users, there is no way to email a friend. No way to write a personal blog entry. No way to make a phone call. No way to use any other means of communication. It's Facebook or living in a cave. You don't want to live in a cave, do you? Even the less true-believer users will be conflicted about their inability to stay up to date with their 1,700 Facebook friends, apparently unwilling to recognize that no one has 1,700 friends and that life can be very fulfilling without hearing trivial updates from 1,650 people you had a passing contact with some time in your life. But whatever. I don't mean to argue here that anyone should stop using Facebook. I'm merely recognizing that cancellation dialog as a triumph of user hostility.