http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=499
"Facebook is not what the internet should be. It is the internet redesigned by people who want information to be owned, and specifically owned by them. It is the internet enclosed, territorialized, packaged up and sold off. The internet for dummies..."
OTM, and it doesn't make any less so that it is flagrantly obvious to most that Facebook was always as described here. Also there is the compulsory nature of its creep into defining the social for a broad tranche of teenagers and twenty-somethings (recall the look, somewhere between bemusement and horror, when you inform a new acquaintance that you're not actually on Facebook!) Heaven forfend that you might not want either to deliver immense amounts of data into potentially unscrupulous hands or keep up with a bunch of unremitting cunts from school who you never actually liked in the first place...