Ahh, but the article didn't say that people need Facebook. They said that we need an alternative to Facebook. That's two different things. If people are going t

Ahh, but the article didn't say that people need Facebook. They said that we need an alternative to Facebook. That's two different things. If people are going to use Facebook (and it's been shown that people will) and Facebook use is going to cause systematic problems (as it's apparent that it does), we may need an alternative to Facebook that is less problematic. That's a very different statement than the one you're responding to.